The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach … children who now live independently. After controlling for unobserved household characteristics, no positive effect of children …?s actual household income on parents? satisfaction can be found. However, children?s health and education have a positive …

a non-intact family has not the hypothesised large negative effect on child well-being. …

interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit model with multiple random effects that …

the study of interdependent utility in general, and altruism between parents and children in particular. We introduce an … parents? self-reported happiness depends positively, albeit not very strongly, on the happiness of adult children who moved …

for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market …

In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond … previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather than agents, we develop a noncooperative model …

happiness can be predicted rather closely from the mean satisfaction people report with each of four domains – finances, family …