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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w25597 |
来源ID | Working Paper 25597 |
Children, Unhappiness and Family Finances: Evidence from One Million Europeans | |
David G. Blanchflower; Andrew E. Clark | |
发表日期 | 2019-02-25 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | The common finding of a zero or negative correlation between the presence of children and parental well-being continues to generate research interest. We here consider over one million observations on Europeans from ten years of Eurobarometer surveys, and in the first instance replicate this negative finding, both in the overall data and then for most different marital statuses. Children are expensive, and controlling for financial difficulties turns almost all of our estimated child coefficients positive. We argue that financial difficulties explain the pattern of existing results by parental education and income, and country income and social support. Marital status matters. Kids do not raise happiness for singles, the divorced, separated or widowed. Last, we underline that all children are not the same, with step-children commonly having a more negative correlation than children from the current relationship. |
主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25597 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583271 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David G. Blanchflower,Andrew E. Clark. Children, Unhappiness and Family Finances: Evidence from One Million Europeans. 2019. |
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