%0 Report
        %A Cetre, Sophie
%A Clark, Andrew E.
%A Senik, Claudia
        %T Happy People Have Children: Choice and Self-Selection into Parenthood
        %D 2016
        %8 2016 Apr
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9880
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9880
        %X There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and populations are considered. We here provide a systematic analysis of this question based on three different datasets: two cross-national and one national panel. We show that the association between children and subjective well-being is positive only in developed countries, and for those who become parents after the age of 30 and who have higher income. We also provide evidence of a positive selection into parenthood, whereby happier individuals are more likely to have children.
        %K happiness
%K fertility
%K children
%K income
%K selection