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 …

-quality panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We also contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life satisfaction … marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …-economic characteristics (with the exception of age) combined. Individuals with a high level of life satisfaction when initially interviewed …

?s actual household income on parents? satisfaction can be found. However, children?s health and education have a positive … parental life satisfaction on the predicted life satisfaction of their children. A significant positive effect can be found …The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach …

Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive …-B administrators strictly controlled the mechanism by which children were assigned to assessment dates. The OLS results show that … children utilizing non-parental arrangements score higher on tests of mental ability, a finding that holds after accounting for …

, relationships between personality traits and the probability of marriage are identical for men and women, which is consistent with … returns to marriage that are based on joint consumption. Tastes for marital public goods are negatively related to openness to … marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for older men and older women, suggesting that gender …

This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when …, but incomplete specialization in marriage. It also captures well-known matching patterns in each of these sectors …

assessments. Mothers might react to having a poorly developing child by dropping out of the formal labor force in order to spend …

The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential … negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show that mother's time spent with children … has declined in the last decade, while the indicators of children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes have worsened. The …

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. …

more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …Little is known about why cohabiting couples have fewer children than married couples. We explore the factors that …