employed friends on the transition from non-employment to employment, and we find the existence of significant network effects … points. This finding is robust to specifications that address the endogeneity of friends’ employment status, which may be … evidence of higher wages and employment stability for those with more employed friends, which is consistent with networks …

We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal …

, measured in childhood, differentially predict the likelihood of employment for adult Norwegian men and women. Drawing on …

Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects … children who grew up with their biological fathers and those who did not. The results suggest that nurture-related effects … explain a significant fraction of the observed correlation of fathers’ and children’s occupational choices. We discuss policy …

In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave … on children’s and parents’ outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for … than the mother. We find no evidence that fathers’ earnings and work hours are affected by paternity leave. Contrary to …

This paper investigates how mothers' decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers …. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers' incentives to … effects on earnings and full-time employment even when the child was no longer eligible for Cash-for-Care at ages four and …

relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place … on two individual-level data sets yield large and positive effects of public child care on maternal employment. A set of …