We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers …. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers’ wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

This paper investigates how mothers’ decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers …. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers’ incentives to … five. However, from age six, we can no longer see any effects. The effects seem to dissipate because most mothers remained …

on children’s and parents’ outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for … children’s cognitive skills. School performance at age 16 increases for children whose father is relatively higher educated … expectation, mothers’ labor market outcomes are adversely affected by paternity leave. Our findings do therefore not suggest that …

to work of mothers who hold different family values. Using a regression discontinuity design and an epidemiological … approach to family values I find that although the policy has substantially increased the pace to return to work of mothers … regardless of their family values, mothers upholding traditional family values keep returning to work at a slower pace than …

differences, variation in the price of child care and domestic productivity differences as determinants of across-household … heterogeneity in second earner labour supply, and of the resulting relationship between household income and the wellbeing of … household members. A central result is that taking account of a richer and more realistic specification of household time use …

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of … household’s preference ordering over the utility profiles of its members depends on exogenous variables, in particular wage … approach to modelling household decision taking, flexible enough to encompass non-cooperative behaviour and Pareto …

parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child … box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental …