happiness and life satisfaction of both males and females are barely not changed after childbirth, and females experience an …

In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …

participation affects the number of children born through decreased marital satisfaction, changed attitudes toward traditional …) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the number of children born, with more pronounced … results are robust to alternative IU measures and a series of estimation approaches that control for endogeneity. IU …

participation affects the number of children born through decreased marital satisfaction, changed attitudes toward traditional …) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the number of children born, with more pronounced … results are robust to alternative IU measures and a series of estimation approaches that control for endogeneity. IU …

In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of ‘more children, more happiness' by exploiting …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents' subjective well-being (SWB …

We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … and exogenous variation in children's astrological characteristics and apply instrumental variables methods. We find a …