Personality is a powerful predictor of central life outcomes, including subjective well-being. Yet, we still know … little about how personality manifests in the very last years of life when well-being typically falls rapidly. Here, we … investigate whether the Big Five personality traits buffer (or magnify) terminal decline in well-being beyond and in interaction …

children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR … positive development of personality, health factors, schooling or labor market outcomes. Our results suggest that the increase … in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low socioeconomic …

activities which is not explicit in Sen’s original set-up, but is key to the development and happiness of young children. A … some cases the association with parenting inputs is stronger. Thirdly, we report happiness regressions for the children … wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using …

Understanding how having children influences the parents' subjective well-being ("happiness") has great potential to … pattern. Those who have children at older ages or have more education have a particularly positive happiness response to a … first birth, and although the first two children increase happiness, the third does not. The results are similar in Britain …

This study investigates whether the expansion of day-care places for under-three-year-old children in East and West …

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 …

search for birth-order effects on personality has not yet resulted in conclusive findings. We used data from three large … research question. This data base allowed us to identify even very small effects of birth order on personality with … designs, we must conclude that birth order does not have a lasting effect on broad personality traits outside of the …

children. We exploit the fact that since the mid 2000s an increasing number of employers have become proactive and implemented … difference-in-differences approach combined with matching. Based on a large panel dataset on families with children in Germany …