that working women with children aged 0-5 are those who say they find balancing work and family more difficult during COVID …, with both women and men spending less time with their children if they continue to work away from home. Similar results …Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the …

We study the relationship between a key early intervention policy designed to support families with children up to the … age of four and the rate at which children are taken into social care. The gradual build-up of over 3,600 Sure Start … Children's Centres (SSCC), operated by Local Authorities across England, created large spatial and cohort variation in the …

, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … income evaluation data for such estimations, we conduct a refined version of the underlying survey, focusing on young women … with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental …

We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … exogenous shock” to family life. We make use of a novel representative survey of parental well-being collected in May and June … groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for …

the family. Parents can provide two types of informal child care: basic care (feeding, changing children, baby …-sitting) and quality care (activities that stimulate children's social and cognitive skills). We obtain the following main results …

contribute to gender gaps in career choice and earnings: women−particularly those with young school-age children …We provide the first systematic account of summer declines in women’s labor market activity. From May to July, the … employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women …