In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

-quality panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We also contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life satisfaction … marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …-economic characteristics (with the exception of age) combined. Individuals with a high level of life satisfaction when initially interviewed …

?s actual household income on parents? satisfaction can be found. However, children?s health and education have a positive … parental life satisfaction on the predicted life satisfaction of their children. A significant positive effect can be found …The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach …

Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive …-B administrators strictly controlled the mechanism by which children were assigned to assessment dates. The OLS results show that … children utilizing non-parental arrangements score higher on tests of mental ability, a finding that holds after accounting for …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … in the effect of happiness gaps: couples are more likely to break-up when the difference in life satisfaction is …

the literature. However, family structure provides a rather static view of the relationship of children's living … focuses on the impact of family instability on children. In light of human capital accumulation, we hypothesize that a stable …Substantial research on the relationship between family structures and child outcomes represents a considerable part of …

developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio …) controlling for various child and family characteristics. The findings indicate that, among boys, obesity is a significant risk … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation …

, relationships between personality traits and the probability of marriage are identical for men and women, which is consistent with … returns to marriage that are based on joint consumption. Tastes for marital public goods are negatively related to openness to … marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for older men and older women, suggesting that gender …

This paper investigates the association between maternal life satisfaction and the developmental functioning of two- to … three-year-old children as well as the socio-emotional behaviorof five- to six-year-old children. We use data from the … to use the mother's life satisfaction before the birth of her child as an instrument to eliminate potential reverse …

establish whether this is causal, or whether it arises because mothers who breastfeed tend to be those whose children would do …This paper uses Propensity Score Matching to investigate the causal effect of breastfeeding on children's cognitive … only children's health, but also their cognitive skills. …