Adolescence is an important developmental period when teens begin spending less time with their parents and more time … Surveys and the 2012, 2013, and 2021 Well-being Modules, we examine how the time teens spent alone and with parents, friends …

regression discontinuity estimator based on children’s birth months, we find a sizable effect of childcare attendance on women …

the increase in the fertility rate (quantity) and the decrease in the educational outcome of children (quality), is highly …

pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self-employment … extended family and child care, relates to self-employment and hours worked for college-graduate married mothers. Our results … suggest that flexibility is a major factor pulling out-migrant college-educated mothers into self-employment. Additionally, it …

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational …

participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the …Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers’ labor force … exogenous temporal and spatial variations in school schedules with a panel of individual mothers’ employment between 2002 and …

comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual … that the "optimal" amount of time that children and adolescents should spend physically active each day varies by the …

We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …