Becchetti, Leonardo; Ricca, Elena Giachin; Pelloni, … - In: Social Indicators Research 111 (2013) 3, pp. 725-751
Empirical analyses of the determinants of life satisfaction routinely include the number of children as one of the … socio demographic controls, without explicitly considering that, for a given household income, more children imply a lower … level of income per family member. The variable “number of children” then often attracts a negative or insignificant …
