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 …

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 …

This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public provision of formal childcare … lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. We find that the arrival of a firstborn reduces employment and … earnings of mothers and employment of grandmothers. Studying a universal childcare program in Quebec, we find formal childcare …

parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … family leave policies across the United States since 1973 with over 40 years of survey data covering two generations of … District of Columbia before the enactment of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in 1993, we find that the pre …

--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 … employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women …

What happens to children during the early years is recognized to be very important for their long run development. It … targeted to premature children, known as Kangaroo Mother Care. We do so using data from a randomised control trial performed …

The distribution of parental leave uptake and childcare activities continues to conform to traditional gender roles. In … by the education of the parents and ask the model to match key features of the parental leave distribution before and … after the reform by gender and household type (the parents' education). We find that changed incentives and, especially …

public and legislators must make regarding children's expenditures, the progressivity of the contributions between parents … goals while satisfying basic desiderata such as supporting children in both of their families, equity between siblings …, neutral medical decisions, and not requiring higher contributions from parents with a lower salary …

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 … working parents spend less time engaged in primary childcare than their counterparts without jobs but more than employed peers …

of two public goods: expenditures on children and other public goods including housing. We show empirically that women …