This study examines the relationship between income and subjective well-being among rural-to-urban migrant workers in … China. Our analysis of a recent survey uncovered a U-shaped relationship between income and overall life satisfaction for … migrant workers in Shanghai. Furthermore, the positive correlation is curvilinear, showing that increasing income yields …

undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their …Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

to be unrelated to its effect on family income, parent–child interaction, and children's school experience. Together …Using a unique longitudinal data of British youths we estimate how adolescents' overall happiness is related to parents … positive influence on children's overall happiness. However, this positive association became either strongly negative or …

Using cleft lip and palate as an exemplar, this article examines parents’ decision-making for children in the context … purposive and theoretical sampling, 35 parents with children from infancy to young adulthood were recruited through a specialist … revealed a core category, ‘doing the “right” thing’, that encapsulated parents’ main concern in relation to their children …

the obesity epidemic. Parents (and children) negotiate complex and often contradictory messages in constructing a set of … and one child in Victoria and South Australia, we explored how parents and children conceptualise and discuss issues of …. Three thematic clusters emerged from the analysis. First, both parents and children perceived that weight was the primary …

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the impact of parental health shocks on investments in children …, more precise, health indicators. Results show that co-living children of ill mothers, but not of ill fathers, are … shocks are likely to raise the employment probability of children due to the need to cover higher health expenditures. …

Parents may have important effects on their children, but little work in economics explores whether children …'s schooling opportunities crowd out or encourage parents' investment in children. We analyze data from the Head Start Impact Study … substantial increase in parents' involvement with their children—such as time spent reading to children, math activities, or days …