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Giorgio Piccitto is a post-doctoral researcher at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policies - Bocconi University. He is currently involved in the project "The Great Demographic Recession GDR" (PRIN 2017). He is interested ...
Chiara Pronzato is Associate Professor at the University of Turin (Italy) and Collegio Carlo Alberto Affiliate since. She studied Statistics at the University of Turin and then moved to ISER, University of Essex, where she earned a Phd in Economics. ...
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In this paper we analyse the relationship between happiness and childbearing taking a comparative perspective. We argue that fertility and happiness are somewhat linked and we investigate whether there are important differences across European countries. Using happiness as a welfare measure offers important benefits over income especially when interest lies in understanding how individuals' wellbeing is associated with childbearing outcomes. We use the European Social Survey (ESS) and apply simple regression techniques, controlling for country differences, and find indeed a positive and significant association between happiness and childbearing. However, parents do not appear to be consistently happier in some countries than in others. The final set of analyses reveals a very strong interconnection between, childbearing, partnership and happiness.
Keywords: happiness,childbearing,European social survey,ESS
He is postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Horizon 2020 project SpoilsofWAR, which investigates the economic consequences of World War I in Central Europe. He received his PhD from Chicago in 2018 and was postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University. He ...
Dominic Rohner studies political economics, development economics, and public economics issues, with a special interest in the economics of conflict. He currently holds a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) investigating “Policies f ...
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Paola Profeta is Full Professor of Public Economics at Bocconi University, coordinator of the Dondena Gender Initiative at the Dondena Research Center for Social Dynamics and Public Policy, research affiliate of CESifo and CHILD and scientific adviso ...
Wouter Ronsijn (°1982) is currently working as postdoctoral researcher at the Bocconi University in Milan, in the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy. He is doing historical research on social inequality and mobility, and ...