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Recent concerns around the importance of job and life satisfaction on firms' productivity have been brought to the policy debate in the European Union. Irrespective of the numerous scientific publications that have been studying the main determinants of workers' life satisfaction, a gap remains on how to grasp compromises between these. The importance of finding such compromises can be particularly relevant, in face of the multiple factors, seldom intertwined and at the same time conflicting, which have a well-known influence on workers' well-being. Therefore, policymakers should be supported with sound methodological tools to help them shape policies that will further promote workers' life satisfaction. With this reasoning in mind, we have developed a multiobjective interval programming model through the use of econometric techniques, where four different workers' life satisfaction determinants (i.e. satisfaction with education, present work, family life and social life) are viewed as objective functions. Furthermore, we have made a separate assessment of the factors that have an influence on life satisfaction for both genders, because of the discrepancies that might arise with this regard. Overall, we were able to conclude that female workers usually have to devote more time to their work than men to get the highest levels of satisfaction regardless of the features under evaluation. Additionally, having one child is sufficient to obtain the highest levels of well-being both for female and male workers. One of the possible implications of these findings is that the existing work-family priorities are clearly not in line with the current falling birth rates all over Europe. Thus, new supportive workplace policies should be in place that could change people's priorities regarding their work and family life. ; Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad under research project ECO2017-88883-R PAI group SEJ-532 Fundação para a Ciência e aTecnologia (FCT) under project grant UID/MULTI/00308/2019

As children spend more and more time on electronic devices and social networks, there is a growing concern about the infuence that these activities may have on their development and social well-being. In this context, the present research is aimed at analysing the infuence that Internet use may have on 6th grade primary school students' academic performance in Spain. In order to do so, we have employed a methodological approach that combines econometric and interval multiobjective programming techniques, which has let us identify the traits and Internet use patterns that allow students to maximise their academic performance in terms of scores in four competences. Our results show that, while daily use of the Internet to listen to music or search for information about other topics of interest can favor the maximization of educational outcomes, the use of social networks should be limited as much as possible to avoid hindering the educational process. ; This work has been partly supported by FEDER funding (under Research Project PY20-00228-R); Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (under Research Project PID2020-119471RB-I00) and the Andalusian Regional Government (SEJ-645). We also acknowledge the scholarship FPU20/01509 of the Ministerio de Universidades and the training received from the Programa de Doctorado en Economía y Empresa of the Universidad de Malaga. The authors also acknowledge the data provided by the Agencia Canaria de Calidad Universitaria y Evaluación Educativa. Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA