Partner + Children = Happiness? The Effects of Partnerships and Fertility on Well-Being

By H. Kohler, Jere r. Behrman, A. Skytthe. 2005

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Social Psychology

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Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel (2010, positive): “…an Ordinary Least Squares fixed-effects model although similar conclusions emerge when a more flexible cardinalization is used (see Ferreri-Carbonell and Frijters, 2004 for a discussion as well as the results reported in Kohler et al., 2005; see also the approach in Di Tella and MacCulloch, 2005).”
The pains and pleasures of parenting: when, why, and how is parenthood associated with more or less well-being? (2014, result): “Consistent with this idea, research has shown that specifically among women, firstborn children are associated with relatively greater happiness (compared to women without children), but subsequent children are associated with relatively less happiness (Aassve et al., 2012; Kohler et al., 2005).”
Children and Life Satisfaction (2010, positive): “These results coincide with the findings of Kohler et al. (2005), who show that female happiness responds more than male happiness to the presence of children.”
Suffer the little children: Measuring the effects of parenthood on well-being worldwide (2012, positive): “The disaggregation with respect to gender (Table 5) indicates that the negative effect of parenthood on well-being is larger for females than for males, focusing on both the number of children and individual group-dummy variables (see Angeles, 2009, and Kohler et al., 2005).”
Parenthood and Happiness: a Review of Folk Theories Versus Empirical Evidence (2011, neutral): “2 Gender and Empty Nest Parenthood The few European studies that focus on middle-aged and older samples are mostly Nordic and find either nonexistent (Kohler et al. 2005) or weak, positive effects (only for women) of having non-resident adult children (Hansen et al.”
How Parents Fare (2016, background): “Parental happiness is positively associated with parental age, but negatively associated with the number of children one has (Kohler et al. 2005; Margolis and Myrskyla 2011).”
Childlessness and Psychological Well-Being in Midlife and Old Age: An Examination of Parental Status Effects Across a Range of Outcomes (2009, background): “…lower life satisfaction, whereas our research and other recent Nordic studies show no effect on psychological distress and a positive (for women) effect of parenthood on cognitive well-being (Bergman & Daukantaite, 2006; Daukantaite & Zukauskiene, 2006; Helbig et al., 2006; Kohler et al., 2005).”
Can genetic factors influence the likelihood of engaging in entrepreneurial activity (2009, background): “Such models can be used to overcome the estimation problems caused in non-experimental data by unobserved endowments that simultaneously affect both the independent and dependent variables (Kohler et al., 2005).”
Happiness and Childbearing Across Europe (2012, background): “…to address whether there is any difference between the first born and any further children on levels of happiness, thereby keeping in line with Behrman et al (2005), we also consider a specification where the childbearing variable measures the number of additional children – conditional on…”
Happily Ever After? Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness in Germany (2006, background): “∗We are grateful to the University of Southern California for financial support, and to Jeffrey B. Nugent, Vincent Plagnol, Merril Silverstein, John Strauss for comments.”