to carry out childcare related activities when children are young. This study finds some evidence that children with … or more weeks, are more likely to be involved in childcare related activities than fathers who do not do so. Furthermore …, evidence suggests that children with fathers who are ‘more involved’ perform better during the early years than their peers …

parents to increase the father’s share of the family’s parental leave time. However, regulations in terms of father’s quotas …The increased demand for a more equal parental sharing of the responsibilities for children has led many countries to … reconstruct their parental leave systems so to provide stronger incentives for fathers to participate in childcare. Father …

universally observed. Other factors such as family income, parental education and quality of interaction with children have …More mothers with young children are in paid work than in the past. There is a long-running debate on possible negative … effects of maternal employment on child development. For the first time, this paper presents an initial comparative analysis …

. We randomly selected households that had at least two school-age children (6–18 years) of different genders. Parents …Using experimental techniques, we identify parental attitudes toward different-gendered children in rural Bangladesh … toward children of a specific gender; 2) neither parent is systematically biased; 3) there are no significant differences in …

This paper investigates whether parents’ inherent gender bias is associated with intrahousehold human capital … investment among boys and girls. We conduct an artifactual field experiment to identify parents’ inherent gender bias and then … attempt to examine how this attitude correlates with the actual decisions regarding schooling and health of their own children …

the current redesign of the welfare state is that family support policies can only to a certain extent been redesigned in … accordance with employment policies. Although some women participate on an equal footing with men, the ‘dual earner, gender … specialized, family model’, which is geared towards greater, but not full equality, seems more feasible. …

policy instruments such as the tax treatment of second earners (relative to single individuals), childcare subsidies, child … second earners (relative to single individuals), stronger tax incentives to share market work between spouses, childcare … subsidies, and paid maternity and parental leaves Unlike childcare subsidies, child benefits reduce female participation due to …

earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not … the number and ages of children requires us to look for other explanations, and we argue that these can be found in the …