Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …

This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational …

children. We estimate differences in the time that immigrant and Canadian-born parents allocate to child-care activities … care-time parents provide for their children, we do find significant differences - by immigrant status - in time … activities by immigrant parents on their Canadian-born children. …

We provide evidence on household and market production in 36 countries since 1960. On average the household sector … accounts for almost half of total hours worked. As GDP per capita increases, the employment share of household production in … decrease and increase. Estimating the value added of household production yields similar patterns. Labor productivity of …

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on … children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non …-cooperative model of household decision making to answer this question. We show that when women have lower wages than men, they may …