) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children …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 …

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older …). We observe a U-shaped relationship between age and levels of life satisfaction for individuals aged between 16 and … approximately 65. Thereafter, life satisfaction declines rapidly and the lowest absolute levels of life satisfaction are recorded …

This paper compares life satisfaction among the elderly (61 years of age or older) who are self-employed, wage … now high on the political agenda. We find that people who are self-employed report higher life satisfaction than people … who are wage-employed or out of the labour force. General health is a strong determinant of life satisfaction but the …