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-age children, and coincides with increased time spent engaging in childcare. Decomposing the gender gap in summer work …
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This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation …
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College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their higher opportunity cost of time and working more hours. Using data from the 2010-2013 and 2021 waves of the Well-being Module of the American Time Use Survey, we investigate...
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Approximately 75% of children aged 2 to 4 worldwide are regularly subjected to violent discipline across the globe. We … disciplining behaviors, with a 0.12 SD reduction in violence against children. Treatment children also experience fewer emotional … implications which could help decrease violence against children across the globe …
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their children are under age three. We use regional and over time variation to show that the Finnish Home Care Allowance … also negatively affect the early childhood cognitive test results of children, decrease the likelihood of choosing academic … on mothers and children compared to HCA. Our findings suggest that shifting child care from the home to the market …
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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 …
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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 …
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By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...
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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 …
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This paper investigates whether the effects of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men -- child …
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