well-being has focused on improving the financial position of families with children. Using Understanding Society I show … measures of child poverty, introduced to help target effective policies that make a real difference to children's lives. Those … for families with children to an emphasis on increasing social contacts. …

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 …

wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using … activities which is not explicit in Sen’s original set-up, but is key to the development and happiness of young children. A … second set of models indicates that the daily activities of very young children are related to household income but that in …

wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using … is not explicit in Sen's original set-up, but is key to the development and happiness of young children. A second set of … models indicates that the daily activities of very young children are related to household income but that in some cases the …