She’s leaving home: a large sample investigation of the empty nest syndrome

Alan Piper and Ian Jackson (i.jackson@staffs.ac.uk)
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Ian Jackson: School of Business, Leadership and Economics, Staffordshire University

No 6, Danish-German Working Papers from Europa-Universität Flensburg, International Institute of Management (IIM), University of Southern Denmark, Department of Border Region Studies (IFG)

Abstract: This study considers life satisfaction in relation to the empty nest syndrome, which is a situation where there are feelings of loss or loneliness for mothers and/or fathers following the departure of the last child from the parental home. In particular, the investigation considers the significance of Identity Economics when applied to parents experiencing a reduction in well-being following an extended period of child-rearing. The origins of the empty nest syndrome are first considered briefly before conducting an economic analysis of life satisfaction using the German Socio-Economic Panel. Our particular focus is the change in the subjective well-being of the individuals who become empty nesters, taking advantage of the richness of this dataset. As a result, this is the first large sample economic analysis of its kind to use identity to evaluate the effects of becoming "empty nest" parents in a systematic way.

Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2017
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Published as Danish-German Research Paper No. 6, 2017

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