care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In …, depression, and parenting stress. Such mothers also reveal more psychological and physical aggression toward their children and …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … thought to be critical to the development of quot;qualityquot; children who will become productive adults. This paper has … three goals related to the examination of parental time allocated to the care of their children. First, using data from the …

unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these … power of the U-index. Happiness and life satisfaction data seem able to forecast migration flows. Fourth, happy people are … measures happiness is higher for the more educated, for married people, for those with higher income and for whites and lower …

their children, and playing with their children, and are more likely to purchase prepared foods. We find suggestive evidence …

This paper analyzes the relationship between maternal labor supply and children's cognitive development, using a sample … of three- and four-year-old children of female respondents from the 1986 National Longitudinal Surveys Youth Cohort (NLSY …). Respondents in the NLSY were aged 21 to 29 in 1986; thus our sample consists of children of relatively young mothers. We show that …

In western countries, accidents are the leading cause of death and injury among children, far surpassing diseases as a … maternal employment on unintentional injuries to children vary by demographic group, with the effects being positive for blacks … winners and losers. In particular, while some children may benefit from safer environments, others that appear to be squeezed …

Parents may have important effects on their children, but little work in economics explores whether children …'s schooling opportunities crowd out or encourage parents' investment in children. We analyze data from the Head Start Impact Study …, which granted randomly-chosen preschool-aged children the opportunity to attend Head Start. We find that Head Start causes a …

, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on these outcomes measured when children are 6 months old. Next, we use … children's lives. Among mothers of six month old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive …

find that access to public schools offset the research time loss to a greater extent among mothers of young children …