-age children, and coincides with increased time spent engaging in childcare. Decomposing the gender gap in summer work …

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 studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill … accumulation, permanently lowering children's skill levels. To the extent that making up for cognitive skill losses during …