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When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for … parents who used to spend time taking care of their children, but to decrease for fulltime working parents because of an …
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societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health …-specific effects, taking into account counterfactual care modes. Our results suggest null or negative effects on children's outcomes …: If children three years and older are in full-time daycare or school and, in addition, cared for by grandparents, they …
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the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we measure parental investments by considering the time parents spend with …Recent empirical research in family economics has shown the importance of parental investments on child's human capital … development, but it is still not clear whether parents respond to changes across time in their child's skills and health. Using …
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Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score … ; USA ; treatment effects ; propensity score matching …
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what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours mainly reflect movements into jobs by parents who … children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show …, in prior decades, would have remained at home. This increase in market work has raised incomes for children in the …
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In this paper we provide an overview of the patterns of intergenerational proximity and coresidence of adult children … graduates are less likely to live near their mothers and older children live further from their mothers. Other demographic …, characteristics indicating adult children's current need for transfers (e.g. grandchildren) are not correlated with either close …
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to gauge its impact on children's propensity to live without their parents in households headed by relatives or friends … socioeconomic costs of being raised without parents or in a single-headed household, gaining a better understanding of the … collateral damage of heightened enforcement on the families to which these children belong is well warranted. …
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The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the … German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …
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amount of time parents spend with their children reading, playing or teaching them new things. We account for employment … children. Using data from a large panel survey of Polish households carried out in 2013 and 2014 (Determinants of Educational … status of parents, their socio-economic status and social and cultural norms they share. Our results show that employment …
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after grandchildren and provide financial or material gifts to children more than paternal grandparents do. In exchange …, daughters help their parents with personal care, household tasks and paperwork more than sons do. The matrilineal advantage is …
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