care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In …, depression, and parenting stress. Such mothers also reveal more psychological and physical aggression toward their children and …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely …-index. Happiness and life satisfaction data seem able to forecast migration flows. Fourth, happy people are particularly optimistic … be replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is …

. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in non-routine analytic tasks and non …

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 …, which granted randomly-chosen preschool-aged children the opportunity to attend Head Start. We find that Head Start causes a …

heterogeneity in the estimated effect of access to subsidized child care across two developmental score distributions for children … from two-parent families. Whereas past research reported findings of negative effects on mothers and children from these … outcomes for children from some households: particularly disadvantaged single-parent households. In addition, we document …

women with five year olds but no younger children were more likely to be employed once kindergartens were available. The … estimated effect is large, implying that three mothers entered the labor force for every ten children enrolled in public school …. By contrast, I detect no significant labor supply response among other single women with eligible children or among …

This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a random … sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations … greater effects on the happiness of highly educated people than those with low levels of education. The happiness …