time mothers spend with their children. Since the institutional context is one in which the alternative is subsidized day …We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human … provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care-arrangements. …

The increased demand for a more equal parental sharing of the responsibilities for children has led many countries to … parents to increase the father's share of the family's parental leave time. However, regulations in terms of father's quotas … should be provided in order to prevent mothers from taking too large share of the family's leave time. …

has remained fairly constant. In this paper we re-evaluate the labour supply responses of both mothers and fathers to … reflect actual time off from work in a system where job-protection exceeds paid leave. We find that both mothers and fathers …

-born mothers, the reform also caused a decrease in educational attainment. Thus, this suggests that the effect of spacing children …In this paper, we provide evidence of whether child spacing affects the future success of children. As an exogenous … births did not exceed 24 months. The rule had a much larger effect on the birth spacing behavior for native-born mothers …

interdependent during most hours of the day. The results also suggest that, conditional on synchronous leisure, parents with high …

hours influences less the parents' time with their children than a change in the father's work hours does. This would imply … find that parents prefer joint activities with children, and that out-of-home child-care is not chosen as a substitute for …Process benefit scores indicates that time with own children is preferred before all other activities, closely followed …

We study the intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities between parents and sons using … instrument is supported by a host of validity tests. This strategy also enables us to predict mothers' abilities. Our results … parents' cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. …

German Socio-Economic Panel. Previous studies have focused on satisfaction differences between parents and comparable … become mothers and of women eventually attaining a completed fertility of zero. We document that these groups' satisfaction … paths diverge around five years before mothers' first birth, even after adjusting for differences in observables. In our …