likely to put much weight on expenditures on the man's children from his previous union. Thus, his own and his partner …

reduced child support. These incentives have negative effects on children's human capital development and health, with … limit children's time spent with relatively high quality mothers, as fathers pursue joint custody in response to the policy. …

on a difference-in-differences methodology we find that the labour market participation rates of women with children …

free public daycare in German states to analyze its effects on children and their families. Our results suggest that … olds with little response among older children. Yet, even with access to free daycare, we find few effects on maternal …

the role of children and show that many potential explanations for the remaining gender disparities in labor market … outcomes are related to the fact that children impose significantly larger penalties on the career trajectories of women … the differential impacts of children on women and men. We propose a simple model of household decision-making to motivate …

In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade …-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects … schooling progress, the expected college enrollment, grades in school and the assessed health of all children in the family. We …

the children born to a couple are random variables with probability distributions conditional on unobservable parental … external benefits of their actions. -- Stochastic quantity and quality of children ; moral hazard ; population externalities …