Happy People Have Children: Choice and Self-Selection into Parenthood

Cêtre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2769188

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“…Expected self-reported happiness also positively depends on health, as expected (e.g., Gerdtham and Johannesson, 2001;Graham, 2008;Rodríguez-Pose and von Berlepsch, 2014;Sabatini, 2014), and on the fact that the subject has got children, a result consistent with the evidence discussed in Cetre et al (2016) for our sample is made up of people living in a developed country with a relatively high household net income on average. Furthermore, married individuals and those in couples tend to be significantly happier than singles (Frey andStutzer, 2000, 2002;Rodríguez-Pose and von Berlepsch, 2014), whereas separated and widowed individuals report on average lower happiness scores, although the difference with respect to singles is not statistically significant.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…More generally, several personal, demographic, socio-economic and institutional factors have been shown to be associated with individual happiness and to interact with the happiness effect of pro-social behavior: personality traits (e.g., Furnham and Cheng, 1997;Ruiz, 2005;Demır and Weitekamp, 2007); age (e.g., Blanchflower and Oswald, 2008;Frijters and Beatton, 2012;Wunder et al, 2013;Laaksonen, 2018); health (e.g., Gerdtham and Johannesson, 2001;Graham, 2008;Sabatini, 2014); education (e.g., Gerdtham and Johannesson, 2001;Cuñado and de Gracia, 2012;Nikolaev and Rusakov, 2016); religiosity (e.g., Stark and Maier, 2008;Sahraian et al, 2013;Francis et al, 2017;Frey, 2018); income (e.g., Clark and Oswald, 1996;Frey and Stutzer, 2002;Blanchflower and Oswald, 2004;Boes and Winkelmann, 2010;Powdthavee, 2010); marital status (e.g., Gerdtham and Johannesson, 2001;Stutzer and Frey, 2006); having children (e.g., Cetre et al, 2016); social capital (e.g., Leung et al, 2011;Rodríguez-Pose and von Berlepsch, 2014); unemployment (e.g., Clark and Oswald, 1994;Di Tella et al, 2001;Frey and Stutzer, 2002);inflation (e.g., Di Tella et al, 2001;Frey and Stutzer, 2002); economic and political freedom (e.g., Veenhoven, 2000;Frey and Stutzer, 2002); democratic participation (e.g., Frey andStutzer...…”

Section: Blood Donation and Happinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Estimating the effect on happiness through question randomization: An application to blood donation

Antoni

Marzetti

2022

Social Science & Medicine

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Section: Blood Donation and Happinessmentioning

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Estimating the effect on happiness through question randomization: An application to blood donation

Antoni

Marzetti

2022

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Gerdtham and Johannesson 2001;Graham 2008), education (Gerdtham and Johannesson 2001), civil status (Gerdtham and Johannesson 2001;Stutzer and Frey 2006) and having children (e.g. Cetre et al 2016). Recent literature has tried to take into account some 'context' variables, such as living in the countryside (e.g.…”

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The effect of technological behaviour and beliefs on subjective well-being: the role of technological infrastructure

Antoni

Franco

2022

J Evol Econ

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The aim of the paper is to investigate the role of technological infrastructures in the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB) and the use of technological goods on the one hand, and between SWB and technological attitudes on the other. We use the sixth wave of the World Value Survey, which allows us to have comparable data for 60 countries over the period 2010–2014. We show that the use of internet as a means of collecting information is associated with different levels of SWB depending on the efficiency of the technological infrastructure. Moreover, we find a positive, though not always statistically significant, association between scientific and technological attitudes and SWB and show that this relation is stronger in areas with less efficient technological structures. The focus on the linkage between technological infrastructure and SWB paves the way for policy interventions aimed at promoting a coherent development of technological access, use and beliefs.

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“…Most findings indicate that parenthood decreases life satisfaction (see, for example, Moglie et al (2018); Stanca (2012)), yet not all (see, for example, Baranowska & Matysiak (2011). While satisfied people are more likely to have children in the first place (Cetre et al, 2016), the birth-related drop in parents' life satisfaction is associated with a decrease in fertility expectations (Luppi & Mencarini, 2018). Since SEW is an important domain of general well-being, these patterns are presumably intertwined.…”

Section: Other Dimensions Of Well-beingmentioning

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The Subjective Cost of Young Children: A European Comparison

2022

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Understanding child-related costs is crucial given their impact on fertility and labour supply decisions. We explore the subjective cost of young children in Europe by analysing the effect of child births on parents’ self-reported ability to make ends meet, and link it to changes in objective economic well-being such as income, benefits, and employment. The study is based on EU-SILC longitudinal data for 30 European countries from 2004 to 2019, enabling comparisons between country groups of different welfare regimes. Results show that newborns decrease subjective economic well-being in all regions, yet with economies of scale for the number of children. Mediation analyses reveal that the substantial labour income losses of mothers (indirect costs) explain only a small part of subjective child costs. In the first year after birth, these losses are mostly compensated for via public transfers or increased labour income of fathers, except in regions where women take extensive parental leave. This suggests that the initial drop in subjective economic well-being after childbirth is caused by increased expenses due to the birth of a child (direct costs) and other drivers such as stress that are reflected in the self-reported indicator.

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Happy People Have Children: Choice and Self-Selection into Parenthood

Cited by 12 publications

References 20 publications

Estimating the effect on happiness through question randomization: An application to blood donation

Estimating the effect on happiness through question randomization: An application to blood donation

The effect of technological behaviour and beliefs on subjective well-being: the role of technological infrastructure

The Subjective Cost of Young Children: A European Comparison

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