wives in the United States in a family context. Earlier research by Baker and Benjamin (1997) posits a family investment … family with liquidity during this period. Consistent with this model, they find for Canada that immigrant wives work longer …

"family or career,? while the second, graduating from 1945 to the early 1960s, opted for family and employment serially - that … is, "family then job." The third, graduating since 1980 in a climate of greater gender equality, is attempting both … "family and career, " with mixed results and considerable frustration. This paper assesses the reasons for the changing set of …

employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First … dynamic panel data models to examine the effects of maternal employment on family outcomes during the first 4.5 years of … factor in modeling family outcomes …

-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births … due to Chinese import competition lead to a move towards family, with higher rates of fertility, parental leave, and … labor market when young, and a negative trade shock induces women to substitute more to family activities than men. High …

The structure of family relationships influences economic behavior and attitudes. We define our measure of family ties … using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that … children need to have for their parents for over 70 countries. We show that strong family ties imply more reliance on the …

self-insurance as a driving mechanism for the family labor supply responses that we estimate. Combined with a stylized …

workplace “family friendliness” and analyze the effect of more family friendly workplaces on the career gaps between mothers and … fathers. We find that exogenously moving mothers to more family friendly workplaces would raise their wages and labor income … the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce …