care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In …, depression, and parenting stress. Such mothers also reveal more psychological and physical aggression toward their children and …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

differences in age, race/ethnicity, ages and numbers of children, and household incomes. Non-partnered mothers feel slightly more … husbands spend substantial time in childcare and with their children, the results suggest that children of non …-partnered mothers receive much less parental care--perhaps 40 percent less--than other children; and most of what they receive is from …

Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … thought to be critical to the development of "quality" children who will become productive adults. This paper has three goals … related to the examination of parental time allocated to the care of their children. First, using data from the recent …

this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely …-index. Happiness and life satisfaction data seem able to forecast migration flows. Fourth, happy people are particularly optimistic … be replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is …

. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in non-routine analytic tasks and non …

their children, and playing with their children, and are more likely to purchase prepared foods. We find suggestive evidence …

In western countries, accidents are the leading cause of death and injury among children, far surpassing diseases as a … maternal employment on unintentional injuries to children vary by demographic group, with the effects being positive for blacks … winners and losers. In particular, while some children may benefit from safer environments, others that appear to be squeezed …

This paper analyzes the relationship between maternal labor supply and children's cognitive development, using a sample … of three- and four-year-old children of female respondents from the 1986 National Longitudinal Surveys Youth Cohort (NLSY …). Respondents in the NLSY were aged 21 to 29 in 1986; thus our sample consists of children of relatively young mothers. We show that …