When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for … parents who used to spend time taking care of their children, but to decrease for fulltime working parents because of an …

amount of time parents spend with their children reading, playing or teaching them new things. We account for employment … children. Using data from a large panel survey of Polish households carried out in 2013 and 2014 (Determinants of Educational … status of parents, their socio-economic status and social and cultural norms they share. Our results show that employment …

are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … suggest that policy efforts to keep separated parents geographically closer together for the sake of the children may, in fact …

in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause … children under 18 have been left behind, with an average parental absence of 9.5 months. Using detailed information on family …This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind …

family long-term care (LTC) and female labor supply in four Latin American countries. Time-use survey data from Chile …, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women provide the vast majority of family LTC; (ii) consistently across … fixed effects, parents' need for LTC is associated with both a significant drop in the likelihood of working (by 2 …

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score …

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

for fathers. The presence of a childcare worker per child reduces the time cost of children to a couple of parents by 5% …This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The …

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

welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and … working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, the study focuses on mono-nuclear families with children under …