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"More children, more happiness?" : new evidence from elderly parents in China
Gao, Yanyan; Qu, Zhaopeng - 2019 - This version: July 2019
the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally … representative survey data from the 2015 China Health and Retirement Longitude Survey, the results from both the ordinary least … causal evidence of the impact of fertility on elderly parents' SWB from a developing economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152172
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The effect of grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents: does the grandparent's child's gender matter?
Yamamura, Eiji; Brunello, Giorgio - 2021
Using a representative sample from Japan and a difference-in-differences strategy, we investigate whether the effect of having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of their (own) single child. In line with our expectations, we find that maternal grandmothers have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430972
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The well-being age U-shape effect in Germany is not flat
Blanchflower, David G.; Piper, Alan T. - 2021
Kassenboehmer and DeNew (2012) claim that there is no well-being age U-shape effect for Germany, when controlling for fixed effects and respondent experience and interviewer characteristics in the German Socio-Economic Panel, 1994-2006. We re-estimate with a longer run of years and restrict the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610762
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‘More Children, More Happiness?’ : New Evidence from Elderly Parents in China
Gao, Yanyan - 2019
the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally … representative survey data from the 2015 China Health and Retirement Longitude Survey, the results from both the ordinary least … causal evidence of the impact of fertility on elderly parents' SWB from a developing economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864449
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The mental health effects of retirement
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019
We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138793
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The mental health effects of retirement
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019
We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140023
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The mental health effects of retirement
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019
We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122587
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Wellbeing over 50 : a capabilities approach
Anand, Paul; Thomas, Ranjeeta; Gray, Alastair M. - 2012
Drawing on the three key relations in the capabilities approach (Sen, 1985) to welfare economics and using panel data from the English Longitudinal Survey of Aging, this paper illustrates how the capabilities approach to welfare economics can be used to understand wellbeing in older age....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581427
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The Great Recession and life satisfaction : the unique decline for Americans approaching retirement age
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Cabacungan, Amanda - 2016
Using data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we examine the impact of the Great Recession on subjective well-being (as measured by life satisfaction) and attempt to identify disparate effects by age. We find that those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595922
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Is happiness U-shaped everywhere? : age and subjective well-being in 145 countries
Blanchflower, David G. - 2020
A large empirical literature has debated the U-shaped happiness-age curve. This paper re-examines the relationship between various measures of well-being and age in one hundred and forty-five countries, including one hundred and nine developing countries, controlling for education, marital and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208787