While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply, less is known about fathers … presence at home as a function of domestic stochastic shocks, and use variation from a Swedish reform that granted new fathers … physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from …

, while reducing behavior problems. These negative consequences are quite small for the average child, however, and usually …

We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test …

these expansions are correlated with employment and leave-taking for both mothers and fathers over this period. Our main … finding is that leave expansions have increased the amount of time that new mothers and fathers spend on leave, with effects …

' behavior is largely independent of the presence (or absence) of their fathers. The strong effect of family structure is not … delinquent behavior and adolescent family structure that cannot be explained by fathers' involvement with their adolescent sons … adolescent family structure and delinquent behavior is not accounted for by the income differentials associated with fathers …

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is …

Fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) is associated with substantially worse educational outcomes for children. We … focus on children in fathers' “second families” when the second families are nuclear families – households consisting of a … whom, until they were at least age 18, lived in nuclear families. Children with MPF fathers are more likely than other …

the incidence of diabetes in the population of future mothers. The exposed mothers are less likely to be married, have … reflect a "scarring" vs. selection story; whites who go on to have children are negatively impacted, while blacks who go on to … have children are positively selected having survived a higher early childhood mortality rate …

those with tastes for religion coincidentally have particular tastes for other behaviors as well. Alternately, religious … participation may directly affect behavior; for example many religious organizations impose rules and proscriptions on their members … test to investigate the importance of religious proscriptions on behavior. Several empirical applications of this test are …