Portela, Miguel; Schweinzer, Paul - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we …, 1991, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children … have a roughly 8% higher survival probability of infections than women without children. …