We investigate the degree of correspondence between parents' reports on child behavioral and educational outcomes using …

mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies …

Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a … costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to become mothers and return to the labor force rapidly. Using a sharp … patterns. First, medium-run effects on mothers' employment probability are positive, significant and large, for some subgroups …

care provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care-arrangements …

mothers in this group. In contrast, we document consistent evidence that an increase in the WBA leads to a small increase in …

skills (emotional stability, social skills) shows rather small effects on each type of skill. We find that both mothers and … fathers are important, but mothers are somewhat more important for cognitive skills and fathers for noncognitive ones …

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked to the Child and Young Adult Supplement. We first show that mothers' work hours … increase gradually as the age of the youngest child rises, whereas mothers' spouses' work hours exhibit a discontinuous jump at … kindergarten eligibility.Leveraging these insights, we develop an instrumental variables model that shows that parents' work hours …

perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one the largest psychotherapy interventions in the world, and the … treatment was highly successful at reducing depression. We locate mothers seven years after the end of the intervention to …