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I Can't Smile Without You : Spousal Correlation in Life Satisfaction
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2009
This paper tests whether one partner's happiness significantly influences the happiness of the other partner? Using ten waves of the British Household Panel Survey, it utilizes a panel-based GMM methodology to estimate a dynamic model of life satisfaction. The use of the GMM-system estimator...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204870
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From classroom to wedding aisle : the effect of a nationwide change in the compulsory schooling law on age at first marriage in the UK
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Adireksombat, Kampon - 2010
marriage ; regression discontinuity ; human capital ; family formation …Does more schooling causes a delay in marriage? Using a nationwide change in the compulsory schooling law in the UK as … marriage. The 1947 reform, which uniquely affected about a half of the relevant population, led to a jump in the average age at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003981597
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Parental unemployment and children's happiness : a longitudinal study of young people's well-being in unemployed households
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Vernoit, James - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 24 (2013), pp. 253-263
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222459
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Daughters and left-wing voting
Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - In: The review of economics and statistics 92 (2010) 2, pp. 213-227
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008737760
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Daughters and left-wing voting
Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor);  … - 2006
born. -- voting ; gender ; daughters ; political preferences ; attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314672
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Daughters and left-wing voting
Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003741182
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Daughters and Left-Wing Voting
Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2021
This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon - nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its economic and evolutionary roots. It also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317616
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Life satisfaction and grandparenthood : evidence from a nationwide survey
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2011
suggest that even though children may not contribute significantly to parents' satisfaction with life overall, there may well … be long-term benefits to having children, provided that our children go on and have children of their own. -- life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310725
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Life Satisfaction and Grandparenthood : Evidence from a Nationwide Survey
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2011
suggest that even though children may not contribute significantly to parents' satisfaction with life overall, there may well … be long-term benefits to having children, provided that our children go on and have children of their own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121762
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Testing for utility interdependence in marriage : evidence from panel data
Powdthavee, Nattavudh (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002050287