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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 … working parents spend less time engaged in primary childcare than their counterparts without jobs but more than employed peers …
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This study analyzes the effect of fathers' parental leave-taking on the time fathers spend with their children and on mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies on within-father differences in leave-taking for...
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Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …
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selection into full-time employment and controls for use of hired childcare workers. We find that the foregone leisure cost of … for fathers. The presence of a childcare worker per child reduces the time cost of children to a couple of parents by 5% …
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-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 …
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welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and …
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Does after-school care provision promote mothers' employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of … Switzerland. To establish exogeneity of cantonal regulations with respect to employment opportunities and preferences of the … methods, we find a positive impact of after-school care provision on mothers' full-time employment, but a negative impact on …
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on parental employment and wages, child care choices, child development, and center quality. We use our estimates to …
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Study (UKHLS) to document how this phenomenon is related to the situation of working parents who now have to manage … Kingdom is worse for working parents, and that it is especially related to the increased financial insecurity and the time …
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We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive exogenous shock" to family life. We make use of a novel...
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