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 …The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet …

This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian … after having children. The simple conditional correlation between children and earnings is positive. When only variation …

Despite years of women's progress toward equality, gender disparities in the labour market persist, and parenthood has … show that five years after child birth women suffer an earnings penalty, while the same effect is not observed for men. The … child penalty for women stems from lower employment after birth. In contrast to similar studies on Western European …

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …

-school and elementary school age. We find no effect on high school completion for women, suggesting availability of non …

This paper explores the relationship between self-employment, partner's employment, the household and children on a … countries. Other effects such as human capital, household income, presence of grandmothers and number of young children indicate …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women's behavior in the …. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native‐born women with time in the United States, and, while our results …

This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within … analyze new long-run life-cycle data collected for iconic programs when participants are middle-aged and their children are in … their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare …