employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …

situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the …

Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the … welfare or the productivity of the former, it has no option but to act through the latter. Parents are, in the ordinary sense …

policies did not considerably affect parents' life satisfaction, partnership satisfaction or mental health, they have been …

Does after-school care provision promote mothers ́employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of … Switzerland. To establish exogeneity of cantonal regulations with respect to employment opportunities and preferences of the … methods, we find a positive impact of after-school care provision on mothers ́full-time employment, but a negative impact on …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …