parents of school-aged children in two-parent opposite-gender families. In line with existing evidence, we find that mothers …' paid work took a larger hit than that of fathers, and that mothers spent substantially longer doing childcare and housework … industries and occupations in which parents worked prior to the lockdown. Nor can they be explained by gender differences in …

addition, even if it is approaching a gender-equal split, the withincouple division of housework barely passes the point at … housework in heterosexual dual-earner couples. Relying on the second wave of Harmonised European Time Use Survey (HETUS) data … for 10 European countries, we estimate spousal relative worktime and housework to analyse within-couple time …

This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death … of grandmothers-the primary childcare providers in Mexico-as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to … disentangle the effect of coinhabiting grandmothers' deaths due to their impact on childcare from their effects due to alternative …

When deciding how to allocate their time among different types of investment in their children, parents weigh up the … perceived benefits and costs of different activities. During the COVID-19 outbreak parents had to consider a new cost dimension … collecting rich data on a sample of first-time parents in England during the first lockdown, including elicitation of perceived …

analysis of longitudinal MHAS data shows that, after accounting for both individual and time fixed effects, parents need for … for gender equality. Also, in a region that is aging faster than any other in the world, social trends (e.g., smaller …

, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the …

household behavior have failed to account for the differential behavior of parents with respect to skill formation of their … gradient, as more educated parents spend more time on skill formation than their less educated counterparts. This pattern is … observed across all countries. The paper further extends this literature by showing that more educated parents also provide …

. The experiment provided parents of preschool students with text messages to support their children's learning at home …. After 15 weeks of intervention, the cognitive skills of children whose parents received the text messages rose 0 …