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"More children, more happiness?" : new evidence from elderly parents in China
Gao, Yanyan; Qu, Zhaopeng - 2019 - This version: July 2019
In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152172
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The Role of Social Security in Household Decisions : VAR Estimates of Saving and Fertility Behaviour in Germany
Cigno, Alessandro; Casolaro, Luca; Rosati, Furio C. - 2021
Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by the VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was tested, social security is thus good for growth. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321181
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On the demand for grandchildren : tied transfers and the demonstration effect
Cox, Donald; Stark, Oded - 2004
transfers to their own parents in order to instill appropriate preferences in their children. This generates a derived demand … for grandchildren since potential grandparents will be treated better by their adult children if the latter have their own … children to whom to demonstrate the appropriate behavior. Empirical work, based on waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009728981
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Early life access to polio vaccines and declining disability rates in India
Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022
We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus-free in 2014. Average treatment effects on the treated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888356
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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/10013248073
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Prolonged worklife among grandfathers : spillover effects on grandchildren's educational outcomes
Been, Jim; Gielen, Anne C.; Knoef, Marike; Moroni, Gloria - 2022
Recent policies aiming to prolong worklives have increased older males' labor supply. Yet, little is known about their intergenerational effects. Using unique Dutch administrative data covering three consecutive generations, this paper studies the impact of increased grandfathers' labor supply...
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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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‘More Children, More Happiness?’ : New Evidence from Elderly Parents in China
Gao, Yanyan - 2019
In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of ‘more children, more happiness' by exploiting … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents' subjective well-being (SWB …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864449
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Early Life Access to Polio Vaccines and Declining Disability Rates in India
Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022
We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus-free in 2014. Average treatment effects on the treated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083845
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Intergenerational effects of grandparental care on children and parents
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021 - First draft
Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in … children's non-cognitive outcomes and parental well-being. To capture heterogeneous effects on different dimensions of children … panel data set, we analyze age-specific effects for families with children below the age of 11. Our preliminary results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330626