introduced a set of reforms that led to a substantial expansion of public child care for under three year old children. Using …

whether and when to have children. Decisions regarding fertility are influenced by policy and labor market factors that affect … the earnings opportunities of mothers and the costs of raising children. We show how observed dierences in these economic …

prevents young couples from realizing their desire to have children. From a research perspective, it is however far from clear … whether fixed-term contracts are the obstacle to family formation that the public a priori expect them to be. In this paper … couples choose to have children early on in life, postpone it to later in life, or decide to remain childless? And: to what …

children. They were more likely to remain in the labour force and had higher rates at which they entered it. While more likely …

particularly pronounced for couples with dependent children, low family income, and high mortgage debt. Results are robust to a …

parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support … welfare reforms might have on divorced parents and their children. Such adverse effects may arise because an increase in the …

This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non-cooperative model of a couple's time … by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative marginal rates of substitution between the public household good and … sharp contrast to previous models of gender-based taxation in which households select Pareto efficient allocations …

parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support … welfare reforms might have on divorced parents and their children. Such adverse effects may arise because an increase in the …

Some sociologists argue that non-intact family structures during childhood have a negative effect on adult children … engagement. Both exercises reveal a significant negative relationship between growing up in a non-intact family and children … their children's political attitudes and orientations. In this paper, we evaluate this hypothesis on the basis of …