development indicators and the life evaluations, emotions and mental health of caregivers. We find that child development …

Understanding how having children influences the parents' subjective well-being ("happiness") has great potential to … and Germany and suggest that up to two, children increase happiness, and mostly among those who postpone childbearing … pattern. Those who have children at older ages or have more education have a particularly positive happiness response to a …

's actual household income on parents' satisfaction can be found. However, children's health and education have a positive …The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach … will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their …

Longitudinal studies have documented improvements in parents' life satisfaction due to childbearing, followed by … satisfaction with specific domains of life. In a preregistered study, we compared parents with matched childless respondents in … their trajectories of life satisfaction, and also satisfaction with family life, health, sleep, work, housework, leisure …

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 … resources, and parents' working time when growing up. These findings imply that the adverse effects associated with parental …