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Happy people have children : choice and self-selection into parenthood
Cetre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2016
There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and populations are considered. We here provide a systematic analysis of this question based on three different datasets:...
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A natural experiment on job insecurity and fertility in France
Clark, Andrew E.; Lepinteur, Anthony - 2020
Job insecurity can have wide-ranging consequences outside of the labour market. We here argue that it reduces fertility … probability of having a new child by 3.9 percentage points. Reduced fertility is only found at the intensive margin: job … parenthood, as this fertility effect does not appear for low-income and less-educated workers. …
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Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2008
We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of well-being? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead...
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The Effects of a Parenting Program on Maternal Well-Being: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Camehl, Georg; Hahlweg, Kurt; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2018
This paper evaluates how the Triple P parenting program affects maternal well-being. We analyze data from a randomized controlled trial and a separate sample of mothers from a deprived neighborhood without a control group. For the latter, we generate a control group using SOEP survey data and...
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Children, Unhappiness and Family Finances
Blanchflower, David G.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2020
The common finding of a zero or negative correlation between the presence of children and parental well-being continues to generate research interest. We here consider international data, including well over one million observations on Europeans from eleven years of Eurobarometer surveys, and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219743
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Does Grandparenting Pay off for the Next Generations? Intergenerational Effects of Grandparental Care
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021
Grandparents act as the third largest caregiver after parental care and daycare in Germany, as in many Western societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882371
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Intergenerational Effects of Grandparental Care on Children and Parents
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021
Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in most OECD countries. Despite its relevance, the effects of child care provided by grandparents on child and parental outcomes have received little attention in the literature....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623143
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Does grandparenting pay off for the next generations? Intergenerational effects of grandparental care
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021
Grandparents act as the third largest caregiver after parental care and daycare in Germany, as in many Western societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658434
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Does grandparenting pay off for the next generations? Intergenerational effects of grandparental care
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021
Grandparents act as the third largest caregiver after parental care and daycare in Germany, as in many Western societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793238
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Back to baseline in Britain: Adaptation in the BHPS
Clark, Andrew E.; Georgellis, Yannis - 2012
We look for evidence of adaptation in well-being to major life events using eighteen waves of British panel data. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of a child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete, whereas this is not the case for unemployment. These findings are remarkably similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282636