Grossbard, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - In: Review of Economics of the Household 11 (2013) 3, pp. 447-467
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...