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 …

children. With such two features built into our model, and under the assumption that individuals care only for the propagation … they can achieve greater survivorship and enhanced genetic fitness. The explanation lies in the free riding behavior that … characterizes the interactions between competing fathers in the same promiscuous pair grouping. Kin ties could also be related to …

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 … state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of …

children has a U -shaped effect on parents' involvement in social networks, with substantial differences between fathers and …This paper analyzes the effect of family composition, and in particular the number of children, the age gap between the … mothers. The negative effect is dominant on the mothers' involvement in social networks, while the positive effect is dominant …

This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers' proximity and children's long-run outcomes using … with offspring's young-adult outcomes. The negative associations are stronger among children of highly-educated fathers … as more contact with their children (measured in terms of the number of nights that the child spends at the fathers …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …

' behavior is largely independent of the presence (or absence) of their fathers. The strong effect of family structure is not … delinquent behavior and adolescent family structure that cannot be explained by fathers' involvement with their adolescent sons … adolescent family structure and delinquent behavior is not accounted for by the income differentials associated with fathers …