We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … 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 …

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 …

In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of …

three-year-old children as well as the socio-emotional behavior of five- to six-year-old children. We use data from the …

developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation …

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. …