This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using … differences in how men and women who have done some child caregiving on the previous day feel when engaged in a set of common … daily activities. We find that both men and women enjoy their time in child caregiving, men as much, or even more so, than …

having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of their (own) single child. In line with our … grandmothers. In contrast, grandfathers' changes in happiness do not depend on their own child's gender. This result is explained … by the fact that grandmothers are more likely to be involved in child-rearing when their daughter has a child. …

existence of son preference among fathers in the U.S. by estimating the effect of child gender on the fathers' subjective well … daughters only. In families with only one child, fathers report no difference in subjective well-being when spending time with a … son versus with a daughter. By further stratifying this sample of fathers by child's age of three, we continue to find no …

Earmarked paternity leave has been introduced in an attempt to increase fathers’ involvement in child rearing and to …

We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … compared to a first born son and that the probability of having the second child is negatively correlated with a first born … results and may be important for other findings in the literature. Labor supply of mothers and overall child …