排序方式: 共有24条查询结果,搜索用时 0 毫秒
1.
Despite recent strong interest in the link between fertility and subjective well-being, the focus has centered on developed countries. For poorer countries, in contrast, the relationship remains rather elusive. Using a well-established panel survey—the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey (ERHS)—we investigate the empirical relationship between fertility and life satisfaction in rural Ethiopia, the largest landlocked country in Africa. Consistent with the fertility theories for developing countries and with the sociodemographic characteristics of rural Ethiopia, we hypothesize that this relationship varies by gender and across life stages, being more positive for men and for parents in old age. Indeed, our results suggest that older men benefit the most in terms of life satisfaction from having a large number of children, while the recent birth of a child is detrimental for the subjective well-being of women at reproductive ages. We address endogeneity issues by using lagged life satisfaction in ordinary least squares regressions, through fixed-effects estimation and the use of instrumental variables. 相似文献
2.
Differences in Delaying Motherhood Across European Countries: Empirical Evidence from the ECHP 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Motherhood postponement and fertility decline have been observed in almost all developed countries. In this article, we aim
to assess some of the potential determinants of first childbirth timing in Europe, in a comparative perspective, using data
from the European Community Household Panel Survey (ECHP). We estimate, separately by country, hazard rates for the timing
at first childbirth conditioning to education and work characteristics. Moreover, in order to explain differences between
European countries, we decompose the differences between rates in the part due to the national population composition by specific
characteristics and the part due to different propensities for women with given characteristics. 相似文献
3.
Arnstein Aassve Gianni Betti Stefano Mazzuco Letizia Mencarini 《Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, (Statistics in Society)》2007,170(3):781-799
Summary. Though there is a considerable literature concerned with the economic consequences of marital breakdown, there is still substantial disagreement in terms of its magnitude. One of the major problems underlying this debate is how economic well-being is defined. We implement several measures of well-being of monetary and multidimensional nature by using data from the European Community Household Panel. Another issue in this literature concerns selection bias of divorcing couples. We tackle this issue by using a propensity score matching technique combined with a difference-in-differences estimator. Results confirm the importance of the definition of well-being. We find a strong gender bias when using monetary measures but a considerably lower bias, and for some countries non-existent, when using non-monetary indices. 相似文献
4.
Many empirical studies find that parents are not as happy as non-parents or that parenthood exerts a negative effect on subjective well-being (SWB). We add to these findings by arguing that there is a key moderating factor that has been overlooked in previous research, i.e. the level of work–family conflict. We hypothesize that the birth of a child means an increase in the level of work–family tension, which may be substantial for some parents and relatively weak for others. To outline such an approach, we estimate fixed-effects models using panel data from the Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia survey. We find that childbearing negatively affects SWB only when parents, mothers in particular, face a substantial work–family conflict, providing thus support for our hypothesis. 相似文献
5.
6.
Work and family reconciliation is a key issue for many countries; in Italy, it is also an important and crucial challenge. Though initially considered a predominantly female issue impacting the maternal employment rate, the importance of fathers in the family domain is now widely acknowledged in policy discourses (such as leave policies). However, an emphasis on ‘fathers’ rights’ has not yet produced the expected improvements in term of men’s sharing care responsibilities and fathers’ involvement in children’s lives. This paper first describes the legislative context along with data on the use of leaves by employed parents. Then three company case studies in the North of Italy are presented and analysed, where both managers and fathers were interviewed to understand the facilitators and barriers for fathers’ leave-taking within companies. 相似文献
7.
Chiara Seghieri Gustavo Desantis Maria Letizia Tanturri 《Social indicators research》2006,79(3):455-476
This study analyses the relationship between subjective and objective measures of well-being in selected European countries
using the data of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). In the first part of the paper, we develop a random-effect
ordered probit model, separately for each country, relating the subjective measure of income satisfaction to actual income,
and controlling for some individual and household socio-demographic fixed effects. In the second part of the paper, we fit
a Bayesian cross-classified multilevel model, in order to control for intra-family correlation in subjective well-being, which
actually appears to be present.
The research was financially supported by the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research and by the 5th European
Research Programme (FELICIE – Future Elderly Living Conditions In Europe, No. QLRT-2001-02310, http://www.felicie.org). We gratefully acknowledge the contribution
of an anonymous referee. 相似文献
8.
This study characterizes the class of Pareto optimal returns policies between a manufacturer and a retailer who receives consumer returns. The manufacturer may take a costly hidden action that reduces the expected number of products returned by consumers, which when realized is hidden information known only to the retailer. When faced with consumer returns, the retailer must decide whether to send the product back to the manufacturer, who harvests a low salvage value, or to engage in costly refurbishment that permits the returned product to be resold to consumers. We find that the optimal returns policies may be implemented through the payment by the manufacturer of a full refund to the retailer of the wholesale price for any returns as well as a bonus paid to the retailer that is decreasing in the number of returns to the manufacturer. 相似文献
9.
10.
Arnstein Aassve Stefano Mazzuco Letizia Mencarini 《Statistical Methods and Applications》2006,15(2):209-227
This paper investigates the extent childbearing among couples in Europe affects their level of economic well being. We do so by implementing a propensity score matching procedure in combination with a difference-in-difference estimator. Using data from European Community Household Panel Survey (ECHP), we compare how the impact of childbearing on wellbeing varies among countries. We use several measures for wellbeing, including poverty status and various deprivation indices that take into account the multidimensionality of individuals‘ assessment of wellbeing. Not unexpected we find childbearing tend to worsen the economic wellbeing of households, but with important differences in magnitude across countries. In Scandinavian countries the effect is small and rarely significant, it is strong in the UK and also significant in Mediterranean countries. Depending on the measure of wellbeing, we find important differences among countries that are similar in terms of welfare provision. 相似文献