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 …

This paper examines the effects of children on demands. We employ a French family expenditure survey that has a number … of unusual features to explore the source of the correlation between children and demands. The first sample we use is of … family background variables. We find that children are not exogenous for some goods. These findings cast doubt on the usual …

Using a large, U.S. dataset it is shown that children are more likely to receive needed mental health specialty … well as the role of violent coercion in maintaining otherwise unsustainable equilibria. Implications for improving children …

This paper investigates the effect of parents’ income on children’s drop-out from school at age 16 using data from the …

This paper adapts the idea of on-the-job training (OJT) to investments that families make in children before formal … home activities in order to preserve their time in human capital-building activities with children, illustrates and …