parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … education and wages for the children born under these policies. The mobility effect, chiefly an increase in intergenerational … mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of …

the CPS, we describe trends in parents' employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to … these expansions are correlated with employment and leave-taking for both mothers and fathers over this period. Our main …

This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care … employment while moving from parental and relative care to center care in the process …

children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show … what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours mainly reflect movements into jobs by parents who …, in prior decades, would have remained at home. This increase in market work has raised incomes for children in the …

Using comparable data for 24 countries since the 1970s, we document gender convergence in schooling, employment and …, especially among parents. A model of time allocation illustrates how the specialization of spouses in home or market production … family policies on women's careers and children's wellbeing. There is to date little or no evidence of beneficial effects of …

at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with …

care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In … parental and child well-being. Although the effects of child care subsidies on maternal employment and child development have …, depression, and parenting stress. Such mothers also reveal more psychological and physical aggression toward their children and …

their children are under age three. We use regional and over time variation to show that the Finnish Home Care Allowance … (HCA) decreases maternal employment in both the short and long term. The effects are large enough for the existence of home … also negatively affect the early childhood cognitive test results of children, decrease the likelihood of choosing academic …

employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women …--and corresponding lapses in implicit childcare--provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment …-age children, and coincides with increased time spent engaging in childcare. Decomposing the gender gap in summer work …