We consider the life cycle choices of a household that in each period decides how much to consume and how to allocate …, spouses' wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to … transitory and permanent wage shocks. These structural parameters describe the ability of household to self-insure in response to …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with …

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 …

Parents spend considerable sums investing in their children's development, with their own time among the most important … most apparent for mothers of young children. Altogether, our results suggest that the increased work associated with EITC … natural to ask how the EITC affects other time allocation decisions, especially time with children. We use the American Time …

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 …

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element …, measures of inequality that ignore intra household allocations are both incomplete and misleading. We discuss determinants of … intrahousehold allocation of resources and welfare. We show how the sharing rule, which characterizes the within household …

' demand for flexibility or about intra-household spillover effects of flexibility initiatives. This paper examines these … impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from …

Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and … to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world …, both the implementation of new programs and extensions of existing ones increase leave-taking rates among new parents …

mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and … parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on …