-being, and renewed focus on effective policy interventions to aid disadvantaged children, we study a cohort of children born in a …

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for … individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that …

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 …

and children in households surveyed in the eight waves of the European Community Household Panel-ECHP (1994-2001) for 14 …

wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using … is not explicit in Sen's original set-up, but is key to the development and happiness of young children.A second set of … models indicates that the daily activities of very young children are related to household income but that in some cases the …