children's lives. Among mothers of six month old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive … employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First …, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on these outcomes measured when children are 6 months old. Next, we use …

differences in age, race/ethnicity, ages and numbers of children, and household incomes. Non-partnered mothers feel slightly more …-partnered mothers receive much less parental care--perhaps 40 percent less--than other children; and most of what they receive is from …Using time-diary data from the U.S. and six wealthy European countries, I demonstrate that non-partnered mothers spend …

that marriage may help ease the causes of the mid-life dip in life satisfaction and that the benefits of marriage are … marriage and life satisfaction, and find that well-being effects of marriage are about twice as large for those whose spouse is …Subjective well-being research has often found that marriage is positively correlated with well-being. Some have argued …

a wide variety of child, mother and family background characteristics. The results suggest that the mother's labor …

education; less educated mothers appear to reinforce differences in non-cognitive skills between their children, while more … to catch-up in non-cognitive skills over time for children of more educated mothers … in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural …

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is …

and child outcomes for blacks and Hispanics, at least for the children of women whose marriage decisions are most affected … children live with a never-married mother. Children of never-married mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, repeat … grades, and have behavioral problems than are children raised in more traditional family structures. But these relationships …

divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage …The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in … the children of college-educated mothers, both overall and within race and ethnic groups. Second, the decline in the share …

longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an …