After three decades of decline, the amount of time spent by parents on childcare in the U.S. began to rise dramatically … in the mid-1990s. Moreover, the rise in childcare time was particularly pronounced among college-educated parents. Why … would highly educated parents increase the amount of time they allocate to childcare at the same time that their own market …

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …

attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school … enrollment among children that parents reported wanting to remain home at baseline. Children that parents want to migrate have … increased enrollment, and parents want more children to migrate …

school calendar and have implications for policies targeted toward women's and teenage children's health and well-being …. Using regression discontinuity (RDD) methods, combined with dates on school year start and end dates by locality, we … document several notable results. First, mothers are substantially more affected by the school year than are fathers. When …

Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … patterns in time spent with children by parents within the United States. Second, we interpret our results in a Beckerian … thought to be critical to the development of "quality" children who will become productive adults. This paper has three goals …

, spouses' wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to … shocks. We find that behavioral responses to wage shocks depend on the presence of young children. We also find that labor …

about the role of birth order on delinquency outcomes such as disciplinary problems in school, juvenile delinquency, and … environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … are on the order of 20 to 40 percent more likely to be disciplined in school and enter the criminal justice system …

little about what motivates parents to engage in their children's development, recent research suggests that ignoring or … reports results from a randomized field experiment designed to increase the time that parents of children in subsidized … preschool programs spend reading to their children using an electronic reading application that audio and video records parents …

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 … substantial increase in parents' involvement with their children--such as time spent reading to children, math activities, or days …