America, we analyze how children's subjective well-being is related to parents' employment status, depending on the … institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is strongly negatively related to children's life satisfaction across …Based on a unique repeated cross-sectional data set of school-aged children in Europe, the Middle East and North …

employment, unemployment, and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy …

-differences model using differences pre- and post- reforms between Québec and the rest of Canada and between parents with young children … and those with older children. Our estimates suggest that Québec's family policies led to a small decrease in parents … in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program providing $5-a-day childcare to children under …

will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of trade-offs involved using a careful selection of potential changes to …Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In … the system of financial support for families with children. We focus on: 1) the trade-off between redistribution of income …

children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show … what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours mainly reflect movements into jobs by parents who …, in prior decades, would have remained at home. This increase in market work has raised incomes for children in the …

school-going children. When children attend school, the potential time working mothers miss out with their children, is … smaller than when children do not yet attend school. At the same time, working might benefit children through, for example …, greater family income. Our study is highly relevant for public policy as in most countries maternal employment rates rise when …

approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with … cannot be attributed to the parents' own employment status. The results suggest pathways through stress and air pollution …-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate during pregnancy reduces the probability of having a birth weight less than 1,500 grams or of …

This paper investigates the relationship between parental health shocks and children's engagement in education and … health on children's educational and labour market outcomes is limited, especially in developing countries. We use child … maternal illness substantially decreases chances of being enrolled in school for children between 10 and 23 years old and, at …

development. These programs also affect parents' budget sets and may lead to changes in labour market outcomes. We exploit the … unusual nature of Ontario's government school system to examine parents' labour supply response to a move from half-day to … mothers, the point estimates suggest large and statistically significant effects on employment and hours of work, and in …