Understanding how having children influences parents' subjective well-being (“happiness”)
has great potential to explain fertility behavior. We study parental happiness trajectories …

Using happiness as a well-being measure and comparative data from the European social
survey we focus in this paper on the link between happiness and childbearing across …

In the recent decade demographers turned their attention to investigating the effects of
children on self-rated happiness or life satisfaction. The underlying idea of this strand of …

Contrary to conventional wisdom, recent studies argue that parenthood is not necessarily
related to higher parental subjective well-being (SWB). However, parenthood remains an …

This study examines the causal processes that lead to the widely observed negative
association between presence of children and marital happiness. Using a nationwide panel …

Economic and rational‐choice theories suggest that individuals form unions or have children
because these decisions increase their subjective well‐being or “happiness.” We investigate …

A major component driving cross-country fertility differences in the developed world is
differences in the probability of having additional children among those who have one. Why …

There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even
for 'children'who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves …

Fourth, in contemporary societies parents bear high direct and indirect costs in having and
rearing children. Indirect costs include primarily mother's foregone earnings during …

This article investigates whether and how having a child impacts an individual's subjective
well-being, while taking into account heterogeneity in family attitudes. People with different …