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The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …
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reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …
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on children's and parents' outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for … children's cognitive skills. School performance at age 16 increases for children whose father is relatively higher educated …
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, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …
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This paper analyzes how culture affects the engagement of parents in child-rearing activities, and time allocations of parents inside the family. We use data from the World Value Survey to construct a country-specific measure of the value attached to obedience as a child quality, which we...
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causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and … negative for children aged 11-12 (substitution from grandparental to formal childcare). …
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How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes …
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Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …
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This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill … accumulation, permanently lowering children's skill levels. To the extent that making up for cognitive skill losses during …
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maternal employment by 4% when children are in breastfeeding age. …
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