parents of school-aged children in two-parent opposite-gender families. In line with existing evidence, we find that mothers …

This paper analyzes differences in daily happiness between those individuals in the United States who perform voluntary … find that those who devote any time to voluntary activities during the day report higher levels of daily happiness than … those who do not. Comparing the happiness obtained from a range of activities, we find that volunteering is among the most …

Life satisfaction is increasingly recognised as a desirable individual outcome. Policy attention with respect to child … well-being has focused on improving the financial position of families with children. Using Understanding Society I show … that child life satisfaction is not associated with household income (poverty), or with a set of new material deprivation …

outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty … information on all births. Our estimation approach accounts for motherhood being a staggered treatment. The reform has small …

children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal …-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …

persons report substantially lower levels of life satisfaction than employed persons. When looking at specific types of …