parents inside the family. We use data from the World Value Survey to construct a country-specific measure of the value …This paper analyzes how culture affects the engagement of parents in child-rearing activities, and time allocations of …-and second-generation migrant parents in Australia. We show that migrant parents from countries in which obedience is more valued …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children … in balancing family and work than parental leave payments. The welfare analysis shows that the introduction of subsidies …

-in-differences design, we find that the reform increased the probability that a newborn lives with non-married cohabiting parents. This … increased female financial attractiveness and increased paternal involvement in childcare. …

investments in childcare: Mothers who take extended maternity leave in quasi-experimental settings are more likely to face mental …

their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

negative for children aged 11-12 (substitution from grandparental to formal childcare). …We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by … causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and …

change in labour supply along the intensive margin. The birth of a child increases the probability of transition to non-employment … less generous pay, worse peers, in more gender-conservative regions and where childcare services are scarcer. …

-related gender inequality in earnings and (ii) assesses the impact of family policies on this inequality. We present three sets of … findings. First, child penalties (i.e., the percentage of potential earnings lost due to children) have strongly increased over … sample period, the fraction of overall inequality attributed to children rose from 14% to 64%. This trend not only resulted …

This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist …