This study investigates the relationship between parental employment and child cognitive development using data from … employment may be particularly costly for children in traditional' two-parent families. Finally, the data suggest that paternal … and maternal employment have qualitatively similar effects, hinting at the importance of time investments by fathers. The …

for an absent wage variable, but instead has an impact of its own. Specific findings on the influence of various family …

Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment … affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … between the two should be better understood. Causality flows in both directions. A conceptual model shows how employment …

mothers, and by reductions in completed family size. Finally, while the pill affected maternal characteristics differently …

efforts of parents with young children to balance work and family life. Next I consider whether employer policies mitigate or …

family formation when mothers reduce their hours of work. But what happens when the kids grow up? To answer that question, we …

childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor market outcomes and financial self-sufficiency. In …

of consumption insurance against shocks to male and female wages, as estimated empirically by Blundell, Pistaferri and …

We measure the effects of parental education on the education profile of wages. The analysis uses sibling pairs from … Women. We also use the variance across siblings in school characteristics to estimate the effects of school inputs on wages … holding family background constant. We obtained mixed evidence on whether parental education raises the return to education …

primarily due to preferences rather than to labor supply responses to family similarities in wages. The wage factors of the …In this paper we develop and estimate a factor model of the earnings, labor supply, and wages of young men and young … National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience. We measure the extent to which a set of unobserved parental and family …