children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

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 …

to preserve joint leisure, and those with higher full incomes consume more of their leisure jointly. Children reduce the …

state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of … voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult household, where both spouses may have marginal rates of substitution … interests of parents and those of children. Depending on the marginal rate of substitution between paternal and maternal …