-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon -- nor are social scientists. The paper discusses …

may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are …Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same …

We propose a model in which parents have a subjective belief about the impact of their investment on the early skill … formation of their children. This subjective belief is determined in part by locus of control (LOC), i.e., the extent to which …

suggest that even though children may not contribute significantly to parents' satisfaction with life overall, there may well … overall. Parents with no grandchildren are no more satisfied with life compared to non-parents of the same age. The findings … be long-term benefits to having children, provided that our children go on and have children of their own. -- life …

studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of unearned income on the Big Five personality … traits. After correcting for potential endogeneity problems from prize sizes, we find that unearned income improves traits …. -- noncognitive skills ; personality traits ; lottery winners ; instrumental variables ; unearned income …

,000 children into adulthood, we show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental health and life satisfaction is almost four …