We examine how family, money, and health explain variation in life satisfaction (“happiness”) over the life cycle … only at ages below 50. Remarkably, the contribution of family is small across ages. Across regions health is most important … in the wealthier, and income in the poorer regions of the world. Family explains a substantial fraction of happiness only …

experience declining fertility. This finding demonstrates the importance of work-family balance in shaping fertility at older …A fundamental reversal of the traditional fertility-development relationship has occurred in highly developed countries … so that further socioeconomic development is no longer associated with decreasing fertility, but with increasing …

This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive … that is orthogonal to family size, as well as controlling for student and family covariates, we find negative family size … no evidence of a relationship between birth order effects and the level of development, while the effect of family size …

lifetimes – cohort fertility – for 37 developed countries. Our results suggest that family size has remained high in many "low … falling birth rates. Across the developed world, the nearly universally-used fertility indicator, the period total fertility … rate, fell well below two children per woman. However, declines in period fertility have largely been an artifact of later …