Understanding how having children influences the parents' subjective well-being ("happiness") has great potential to … pattern. Those who have children at older ages or have more education have a particularly positive happiness response to a … first birth, and although the first two children increase happiness, the third does not. The results are similar in Britain …

There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well … between children and subjective well-being is positive only in developed countries, and for those who become parents after the … individuals are more likely to have children. …

There have been many studies of how the number of children in a family affects the parents’ or the children’s lives … happiness. It is argued in this paper that an overall “happiness effect” is not very informative because of the presumably large … variation in individuals’ perceived gains from having children. Furthermore, it is explained that such an effect would be …

countries worldwide. We find that having children is negatively related to well-being. Conditioning on economic and socio … number of children as a proxy variable to account for the endogeneity of parenthood decisions. …