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Adult Outcomes for Children of Teenage Mothers
Francesconi, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
children of mothers who gave birth in their early twenties. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822749
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Parents Transmit Happiness along with Associated Values and Behaviors to Their Children: A Lifelong Happiness Dividend?
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have …)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of values and behaviors known to be associated with happiness … participation, and regular exercise. Both parents have about equal influence on the values and behaviors which children adopt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884209
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Back to Baseline in Britain: Adaptation in the BHPS
Clark, Andrew E.; Georgellis, Yannis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We look for evidence of adaptation in well-being to major life events using eighteen waves of British panel data. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of a child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete, whereas this is not the case for unemployment. These findings are remarkably similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279372
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Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of wellbeing? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703135
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Life Events and Subjective Well-being: The Case of Having Children
Pedersen, Peder J.; Schmidt, Torben Dall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
from non-economic factors as well. In the present paper we focus on the eventual impact on SWB from having children. The … following birth of a child. We focus on the impact from having children using two very big panel data sets. The first is the … market background variables to be included in the econometric analyses of the SWB impact from children. The second data set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778778
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Family Values, Social Needs and Preferences for Welfare
Lucifora, Claudio; Meurs, Dominique - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
), both within the couple and between parents and children. We find a positive association between weak (strong) family values …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592169
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Modin, Bitte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695870
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The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order: British Children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in … quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed … the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762021
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Individual Rationality and Learning: Welfare Expectations in East Germany Post-Reunification
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
and those with children. However, expectations and realizations of life satisfaction in East Germany had converged by 1995 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233883
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Subjective Measures of Economic Well-Being and the Influence of Income Uncertainty
Schwarze, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper provides evidence that subjective measures of individual well being can be used to study the impact of income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233925