In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The … one child under age 3 is 1.9 hour for mothers and 2.2 hours for fathers. We find economies of scale for mothers but not … for fathers. The presence of a childcare worker per child reduces the time cost of children to a couple of parents by 5%. …