earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not … the number and ages of children requires us to look for other explanations, and we argue that these can be found in the …

wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the … childcare industry, this paper examines whether college-educated native women respond to immigrant-induced lower cost and … potentially more convenient childcare options with increased fertility. An analysis of U.S. Census data between 1980 and 2000 …

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

parents with children born shortly after and before the coming into effect of the law on 1 January 2007 yields unbiased … estimates of the reform effects, because at the time when these children were conceived none of the parents knew that the … while iii) keeping them close to the labor market, and iv) incentivize fathers to participate in childcare. We evaluate the …

presence in the household of preschool and school-age children and/or the elderly and disabled affects women's likelihood of … and that presence of pre-school age children significantly decreases it. The negative effect on women's labor force … participation of having young children in the household (compared to no children in the household) is substantially larger in …

, researchers have not found persuasive evidence that economic downturns increase abuse, despite their impacts on family income. In … builds on family-time-use models and emphasizes differential risks of abuse associated with a child's time spent with …