In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the … parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …

, and on the amount given, if the potential giver is under the age of retirement and has children, but no significant effect … if the person has no children, or is over the retirement age. This rejects the hypothesis that money transfers are …

old age by investigating the role of adult children's gender in the context of Thailand, an aging Asian country with no … those who maintain a good relationship with their parents help explain the positive happiness effect on older persons …. Coresiding daughters are shown to increase the happiness of their parents through three channels: reducing loneliness, improving …

Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany’s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …

show how hiring labor from outside the household and transfers to the household might induce a reduction in children …