Understanding social aspects of parental well‐being is vital because parents' welfare has
implications not only for the parents themselves but also for child development, fertility, and …

Many studies have found that married people have higher subjective well-being than those
who are not married. Yet the increase in cohabitation raises questions as to whether only …

This article combines two apparently distinct strands of contemporary research on fertility:
the literature on economic uncertainty and fertility; and the literature on subjective well-being …

Purpose This study aims to extend the knowledge in the domain of intellectual capital and
entrepreneurship by investigating whether happiness may have a positive influence on …

The country-specific conditions for work and family reconciliation (family policies, labour
market structures and gender norms) are believed to influence tensions between paid …

From a sociological perspective, parenting stress occurs in economic, social, and cultural
contexts in which some parents are more disadvantaged than others. In this chapter, we …

Life satisfaction research regularly identifies single mothers as relatively unhappy. This
comparative study refines this view by assessing how broader institutional and cultural …

There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with
greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and …

Many empirical studies find that parents are not as happy as non-parents or that parenthood
exerts a negative effect on subjective well-being (SWB). We add to these findings by arguing …

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