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 …

employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women …--and corresponding lapses in implicit childcare--provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment …-age children, and coincides with increased time spent engaging in childcare. Decomposing the gender gap in summer work …

Approximately 75% of children aged 2 to 4 worldwide are regularly subjected to violent discipline across the globe. We … disciplining behaviors, with a 0.12 SD reduction in violence against children. Treatment children also experience fewer emotional … implications which could help decrease violence against children across the globe …

What happens to children during the early years is recognized to be very important for their long run development. It … targeted to premature children, known as Kangaroo Mother Care. We do so using data from a randomised control trial performed …

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 …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …, importantly, do not generate work disincentive effects. The pattern of results is most consistent with the idea that parents …

parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … education and wages for the children born under these policies. The mobility effect, chiefly an increase in intergenerational … mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of …

children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show … what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours mainly reflect movements into jobs by parents who …, in prior decades, would have remained at home. This increase in market work has raised incomes for children in the …