children has a U -shaped effect on parents' involvement in social networks, with substantial differences between fathers and … mothers. The negative effect is dominant on the mothers' involvement in social networks, while the positive effect is dominant …

these expansions are correlated with employment and leave-taking for both mothers and fathers over this period. Our main … finding is that leave expansions have increased the amount of time that new mothers and fathers spend on leave, with effects … the CPS, we describe trends in parents' employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to …

teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is … her friends' mothers' choices when she was a teenager, and the interaction between the two. The empirical salience of this … distant she is (in terms of working hours) from the friends' mothers. …

analyze whether the employment status of neighbors influences the employment probability of a worker who lost his job due to a … neighborhood employment rate increases the probability of having a job six months after displacement by 0.9 percentage points. The …

share the results with firms increases workseekers' employment and earnings. It also aligns their beliefs and search … search, but smaller effects on employment and earnings. Giving assessment results only to firms increases callbacks. These …

contributions, a lump-sum redistribution from fathers to mothers may make children better off, but both parents worse off, or vice … cost of both parents. Thus, proposals to redistribute income from fathers to mothers need to take into account socially …

While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply, less is known about fathers … presence at home as a function of domestic stochastic shocks, and use variation from a Swedish reform that granted new fathers … physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from …

We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons …. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved …