) 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 …

with health, and satisfaction with children. Our results suggest that the increase in SWB is achieved through better health … random, we find that having more daughters promotes older parents' SWB, especially overall life satisfaction, satisfaction …, and with fewer children. …