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 …

invest more in children and less in market-specific human capital and thus have lower earnings. We revisit these and other …

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 …

, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation … in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed between … partners and children are a household public good, there is a conflict between individually optimal and efficient, i.e. surplus …

have ignored the potential importance of household work performed by children at home. Given that children from certain age … that in a family, children replace their old parents in household chores that would allow parents work longer hours to … income of working children and other components of household income affect the allocation of children's time between working …

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

describes the income diversification patterns of Peruvian households with young children (aged between 6 and 18 months … communities who have no young children. The authors explore links between income diversification strategies, household assets, the …