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Happy people have children : choice and self-selection into parenthood

Cetre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2016

There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and populations are considered. We here provide a systematic analysis of this question based on three different datasets:...

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Income and fertility of female college graduates in the United States

Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2024

Fertility rates have fallen below replacement levels in many economies. We examine the relationship between female … incomes and fertility for college graduates in the United States. Female income is likely endogenous to fertility, and … procedure to estimate two-sided bounds for the effect of female income on fertility. The effect of female income on fertility is …

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Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011

This paper examines the central hypothesis of the influential Malthusian theory, according to which improvements in the technological environment during the pre-industrial era had generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading to a larger, but not significantly richer,...

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How does parental divorce affect children's long-term outcomes?

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2016

Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...

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The happiness-income paradox revisited

Easterlin, Richard A.; McVey, Laura Angelescu; Switek, … - 2011

The striking thing about the happiness-income paradox is that over the long-term - usually a period of 10 y or more - happiness does not increase as a country's income rises. Heretofore the evidence for this was limited to developed countries. This article presents evidence that the long term...

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Male Earnings, Marriageable Men, and Nonmarital Fertility : Evidence from the Fracking Boom

Kearney, Melissa S. - 2017

There has been a well-documented retreat from marriage among less educated individuals in the U.S. and non-marital childbearing has become the norm among young mothers and mothers with low levels of education. One hypothesis is that the declining economic position of men in these populations is...

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Who Owns Children and Does it Matter?

Schoonbroodt, Alice - 2010

failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …

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Happiness and loss aversion : when social participation dominates comparison

Vendrik, Maarten C. (contributor); … - 2006

A central finding in happiness research is that a person's income relative to the average income in her social reference group is more important for her life satisfaction than the absolute level of her income. This dependence of life satisfaction on relative income can be related to the...

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Non-cash benefits and the distribution of economic welfare

Callan, Tim (contributor); Keane, Claire (contributor) - 2009

Non-cash benefits can have substantial effects on the distribution of economic welfare. Standard approaches to the inclusion of non-cash benefits in broader measures of resources have failed to take adequate account of the pattern of needs associated with the greater use of health and education...

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Life satisfaction

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009

We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well-described by four domains: job or daily activities, social...

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