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

the CPS, we describe trends in parents' employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to … these expansions are correlated with employment and leave-taking for both mothers and fathers over this period. Our main …

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 …

, suggesting a causal link between the parental employment shock and children's academic difficulties. These effects are … concentrated among children whose parents have a high school education or less …We study the relationship between parental job loss and children's academic achievement using data on job loss and …

analysis reveals some striking similarities in the qualitative effects of children across countries, but also sharp differences …

families based on the number of children, with families containing two or more children now receiving substantially more in … EITC with two or more children compared to those with only one child. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factors … Surveillance Survey, we find in difference-in-difference models that for low-educated mothers of two or more children, the number …

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. Income … spent on everyday items likely to improve the general conditions children face. Additionally, some families reduce spending …

unwed parents. These children are the fastest growing group of children in the US, and they are the least likely to receive … suggest that further gains in child support payments will rest with our ability to collect child support for children born to …