parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support … welfare reforms might have on divorced parents and their children. Such adverse effects may arise because an increase in the …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children’s age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …

The opportunity costs of rearing British children, in terms of cash earnings forgone by their mother, are estimated for … representative women with different numbers of children. These are then combined with the earnings function to simulate lifetime … income. The simulations indicate that the earnings forgone as a result of bearing and rearing two children can be decomposed …

child care provision. The earnings forgone over a lifetime by a woman bearing children (compared with the earnings of her … there is also more out-of-home provision for children of and below school age. The effect on mothers' lifetime earnings of …

and purchased child care (e.g. childminders, nannies) for the care and rearing of children. The theoretical model implies …

Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …