elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data from a household survey. We …In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the living arrangements of elderly parents and their children (whether … find that the proportion of elderly parents living with their eldest sons is much higher than that of elderly parents …

time mothers spend with their children. Since the institutional context is one in which the alternative is subsidized day …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 …

zentrale untersucht werden: Zum Ersten sollte für Eltern in der Frühphase der Elternschaft ein Schonraum geschaffen werden. Zum … smooth household income in the year after childbirth and another to increase the incentives to return quickly to the labour … incentives for mothers to return to the labour market in the second year after childbirth. We find that the average increase of …

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers …. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human … provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care-arrangements. …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

. Higher-educated and older parents spend more time with their children. There are significant and positive correlations across … of the standard hypothesis that performing housework does not bring utility. Parents' market time responds positively to … to an increase in their wife's wage. Non-labour income reduces paid work by parents and increases their non-market time …

The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in … compensation. Controlling for unobserved household heterogeneity, planned consumption differences across sons, and a fuller …