The common finding of a zero or negative correlation between the presence of children and parental well-being continues … overall data and then for most different marital statuses. Children are expensive: controlling for financial difficulties … children are the same, with stepchildren commonly having a more negative correlation than children from the current …

asymmetry: lower life satisfaction is only found for unmarried men and women with school-age children. The negative effect for … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and show that teleworking had a negative average effect on life satisfaction over the … women with school-age children disappears in 2021, suggesting adaptation to new constraints and/or the adoption of coping …

There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well … between children and subjective well-being is positive only in developed countries, and for those who become parents after the … individuals are more likely to have children. …

events, tend to return to some baseline level of well-being? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the …

panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …