Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in … obesity in children and adults. This paper analyzes the effect of mother's labor supply in childhood on young adults … importance of childhood environment on children's later life outcome and the importance of behavioral changes in explaining the …

Process benefit scores indicates that time with own children is preferred before all other activities, closely followed … market work and time with children are strongly interdependent. Economic incentives work primarily through decisions about … hours influences less the parents' time with their children than a change in the father's work hours does. This would imply …

Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young children before the 1994 election, but made generous promises to the … same group before the 1998 election. Since parents with older children were largely unaffected we use a difference …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

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 … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …

education on health behavior is the same between those with and without a learning disability, suggesting that cognition is not …