Do rich parents enjoy children less?
Year: 2017
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: We investigate the role of individual labor income as a moderator of parental subjective well-being \ntrajectories before and after the first childbirth in Germany, a very low fertility country. Analyzing \nGerman Socioeconomic Panel Survey data, we found that income matters negatively for parental \nsubjective well-being after childbirth, though with important differences by education and gender. \nIn particular, among better educated parents, the richer see the arrival of a child more negatively. \nThese findings contribute to the debate on the relationship between income and fertility adding \ninformation on how parents perceive the birth of a child beyond the strict financial cost of \nchildbearing and raising. Results are discussed in terms of preferences among different groups of \nparents, costs of children, and work and family balance. Results are robust to potential endogeneity \nbetween income and childbirth, as well as for alternative measures of income.
Author: RAPALLINI, CHIARA
Institution: Bocconi University
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3185804338