: efficiently or inefficiently. Under strong, but standard, assumptions regarding marriage market equilibria, marital sorting … efficient or not. We develop a new likelihood-based metric to compare marriage market fits under the two alternative behavioral …

: efficiently or inefficiently. Under strong, but standard, assumptions regarding marriage market equilibria, marital sorting … efficient or not. We develop a new likelihood-based metric to compare marriage market fits under the two alternative behavioral …

This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on fragile families' time use with their children. Courses …, we find attending the course increased families' awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, the …

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to …

The economic and psychological literatures have demonstrated that early investments (private and public) in children … countries, implying that mothers spend less time with their children and that families rely more on external sources of …

Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in … equal allocation of time with the child, though beneficial to the children, may have a negative effect for the mother …

, striking differences still emerge in the timing of leaving home for adult children. In Southern countries (as Spain, Italy or … from 14 European countries (ECHP). We augment the informational content with indicators of labor, housing and marriage … gender differences …

This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on families' time use with their children in urban areas in … course increased families' awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, reading often to the children …

cognitive and non-cognitive development of young children and how to reduce gender gaps later in life. Our paper offers a … results on the Italian case which indicates that gender differences in the outcomes is lower among children who attended an …A rich strand of the economic literature has been studying the impact of different forms of early childcare on children …

their children, child-related expenditure and the results obtained by them, with particular attention to gender differences … writing and math and logical reasoning. The amount of time mothers spend with children is always greater than fathers but … changes over the life cycle of the children. In fact, the time mothers spend with children decreases as the child grows up and …