syndrome. Furthermore, the analysis considers the role of two key economic variables: consumption and leisure via the standard … disposable income and a gain of leisure time - and the psychological (and cultural) notion of the lonely, sad empty nester. This … feelings of loss or loneliness for mothers and/or fathers following the departure of the last child from the family home. This …

variations in the underlying income type substantially affect tests of the relationship between life satisfaction, income rank …Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests … sensitive to simple parameter changes. Using large-scale panel data from Germany and the UK, I report cases where plausible …

panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …

The common finding of a zero or negative correlation between the presence of children and parental well-being continues … overall data and then for most different marital statuses. Children are expensive: controlling for financial difficulties … existing results by parental education and income, and country income and social support. Last, we underline that not all …

's actual household income on parents' satisfaction can be found. However, children's health and education have a positive … parental life satisfaction on the predicted life satisfaction of their children. A significant positive effect can be found …The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach …

income distribution. However, it has become increasingly recognised, both at the academic and political level, that focusing … purely on income provides a limited picture of social progress. We illustrate how ex-ante policy evaluation can be performed … in terms of richer concepts of individual well-being, such as subjective life satisfaction and equivalent incomes. Our …

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 …Using longitudinal data for children aged 10-15 years living in England in 2009-2014 we test the hypothesis that income …

life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and … experienced during early (0-5 years) and late (11-15 years) childhood leads to lower life satisfaction at ages 18-31. Nevertheless … after controlling for local unemployment, individual and family characteristics, parental job loss expectations, financial …

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …