children's wellbeing and human capital accumulation are hampered in both developed and developing countries. …

combination of paid and unpaid work and leisure - affect life satisfaction, and the marginal returns from additional hours spent … has a negative effect on life satisfaction. For men who are leisure rich, however, the marginal benefits of an additional … hour of housework are positive. Leisure rich men appear to gain satisfaction from doing housework, in a way that other men …

has recently moved on to assess couple’s happiness and the extent to which individuals in couples influence each other …’s happiness without making reference to the problem of allocation of resources. The latter is however important to both the … individual and couple happiness, and in the limit determine whether couples stay together. Here we address the role of the …

The interaction between family size and children quality has been a recurring topicin the economics of family. However … instruments based on the report of the ideal number of children. The novelty of the instruments lies in that unlike most articles … first (second) born children a first (second) sibling generates null or positive effects on the four outcomes but there are …

Due to the increase in labor force attachment of mothers of young children in the last decade, child care policies have … mothers of young children, relatively little unmet need" for child care services and the poor facing constraints to access the … higher for low-income families. As children grow the availability of formal care modes becomes determinant to enable the …