We examine how family, money, and health explain variation in life satisfaction (“happiness”) over the life cycle … only at ages below 50. Remarkably, the contribution of family is small across ages. Across regions health is most important … percent in mature adulthood. Health is the most important factor, and its importance increases with age. Income is important …

understanding low fertility in this country, but that the role that family plays in a couple’s fertility decisions needs to be … residential independence of the new nuclear family. The empirical data are 74 semi-structured interviews with women between ages …-notes produced by several months of ethnographic observation of social practices related to intergenerational relations, gender …

the effects of family policies on fertility. Theoretically we employ approaches of comparative welfare-state research, of …-of-theart of such an approach. We present studies on the impact of family policies on Swedish childbearing behavior to demonstrate … effects of family policies on childbearing and fertility. …

German Family Panel (pairfam), which collected information on the partnership status at first birth using two different …

data from the first wave of the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). The analysis shows that stepfamilies more often report … economic hardship than nuclear families in France and western Germany. Socio-demographic differences between family types …-economic composition of different family types. For the Russian Federation and eastern Germany, we do not find any statistically …

This research offers fresh evidence 1) on the contribution of social mobility to health differentials by proposing a … new link between downward mobility and health: downward mobility itself may have an immediate impact on health, above and … health status that preceded downward mobility or unemployment. This robustness suggests that selection effect alone may not …