Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … patterns in time spent with children by parents within the United States. Second, we interpret our results in a Beckerian …

After three decades of decline, the amount of time spent by parents on childcare in the U.S. began to rise dramatically … in the mid-1990s. Moreover, the rise in childcare time was particularly pronounced among college-educated parents. Why … would highly educated parents increase the amount of time they allocate to childcare at the same time that their own market …

little about what motivates parents to engage in their children's development, recent research suggests that ignoring or … reports results from a randomized field experiment designed to increase the time that parents of children in subsidized … preschool programs spend reading to their children using an electronic reading application that audio and video records parents …

Parents may have important effects on their children, but little work in economics explores whether children …'s schooling opportunities crowd out or encourage parents' investment in children. We analyze data from the Head Start Impact Study … substantial increase in parents' involvement with their children--such as time spent reading to children, math activities, or days …

development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or …