Empirical analyses on the determinants of life satisfaction often include the impact of the number of children variable … driven by heterogeneous opportunity costs. Our empirical results give rise to a paradox: why people have children if the … paradox are strictly connected. Effectiveness of tax/subsidies impacting on fertility crucially depends on whether the …

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. …

Using longitudinal data for children aged 10-15 years living in England in 2009-2014 we test the hypothesis that income … matters for children’s life satisfaction. The results suggest that children are more satisfied with life the more income their … family has. Income effects are larger the less income the family has and statistically significant for children from the age …

We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for … individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that …

the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and … twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child …

custodial parents exercise their children's voting rights until they come of age) and the vast literature on formal models with … endogenous fertility that address the problem of fiscal redistribution between young and old cohorts in the presence of an aging …

relationship between fertility rates and income was positive. On the other hand, there were those who raised the possibility that … this linkage did not occur, and they emphasized that an increase in income did not necessarily lead to having more children … show that those who took the view that an increase in income leads to the desire to have more children, did not take into …