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 … finding is that leave expansions have increased the amount of time that new mothers and fathers spend on leave, with effects …

in earnings is due to children. The arrival of children creates a gender gap in earnings of around 20% in the long run … explanation for the persistence of child penalties, we show that they are transmitted through generations, from parents to …

's employment during her children's childhood has an asymmetric effect on the educational achievement of her own sons and daughters … production for boys is more adversely affected by a decrease in the mother's time input as a result of increasing employment … about the implications of these asymmetric effects on the mothers' labor supply decisions and find supporting evidence in …

maternal employment has a positive effect on children's academic performance in all specifications, particularly when women … contexts, and which finds no or a small negative effect of maternal employment on children's cognitive development and academic …Using a Danish data set that follows 135,000 Danish children from birth through 9th grade, we examine the effect of …

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

This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are … analysis reveals some striking similarities in the qualitative effects of children across countries, but also sharp differences …

of children, suggesting a potential role for family-friendly policies. We provide new evidence on employer provision of …

may provide an alternative explanation for the well-established finding that child health improves when mothers control a … children at birth. This work sheds new light on the health production process as well as observed income gradients in health … and children via reductions in violence …

Surveillance Survey, we find in difference-in-difference models that for low-educated mothers of two or more children, the number … families based on the number of children, with families containing two or more children now receiving substantially more in … benefits. If income is protective of health, we should see improvements over time in the health for mothers eligible for the …

effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the … 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 …