of children and parental subjective well-being using two alternative measures: life satisfaction and a happiness index …. Multiple births are used as the source of exogenous variation to deal with number of children endogeneity. Estimating this … relationship on subgroups of mothers and fathers whose children fall into different age categories, we document that fathers' well …

rely almost exclusively on family; as the geographical distance between adult children and elderly parents increases, the …Geographical distance between adult children and elderly parents adversely affects the provision of help to the latter …. We investigate how neighbours, friends and other non-family individuals compensate for the shortages of help received by …