We survey the Happiness and Economics field to systematize the explanations of the happiness gender gap, whose puzzling … edge medical technologies) lead in the static (time-invariant) explanation of happiness and its gender gap, while economic …, the Happiness and Economics field has provided original evidence on the country and time variant nature of the happiness …

and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with …

whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the …

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we …

Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the …

in the usual way, and an unconventional one allowing them to qualify for a pension by having children, and investing time …

Recently there has been much public discussion about children spending long afternoons alone at home. It has been … claimed that spending a lot of time alone makes children vulnerable to many kinds of risk behaviour, such as smoking, use of … alcohol and drugs, depression and poor school performance. Concerns have also been voiced about children’s unsupervised …