, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on these outcomes measured when children are 6 months old. Next, we use … children's lives. Among mothers of six month old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive …

As the share of U.S. adult children living with their parents increases, it is important to understand how children who … Retirement Study (HRS) to examine the effects of boomerang children on their parents' labor market expectations and choices, as … well as on their wealth, health, and life satisfaction. Event study analysis suggests that boomerang children return home …

happiness data or assumes that felt happiness is more or less the same thing as flow utility. The approach we propose in this … paper steers a middle course between the two polar views that "happiness is irrelevant to Economics" and the view that … "happiness is a sufficient statistic for utility." …

Happiness data--survey respondents' self-reported well-being (SWB)--have become increasingly common in economics …

Validation of happiness measures is inherently challenging because subjective sensations are unobserved. We introduce a … they would respond (or would have responded) to a survey question about their happiness after the same event. The …