older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. -- childcare ; labor … supply ; cognitive skills ; family policy ; Germany …

We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by … causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and …

non-married cohabiting parents. This effect results from a reduced risk of single parenthood among women who gained from …

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 …

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 …

men, while single women were more likely to be working than single men. However, fathers of school-age children who …, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled … remained employed were working reduced hours compared to men without children. Remote work mitigated some of the negative …

after grandchildren and provide financial or material gifts to children more than paternal grandparents do. In exchange …

employment and fertility among women, as well as long-run cognitive outcomes among children. A structural life-cycle model of …-education women. This leads to lower reading scores among children, primarily as a result of mothers shifting away from formal care … outcomes of children, via estimating a cognitive ability production function that corrects for the endogeneity of inputs. We …

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 …