This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …

This paper analyzes how culture affects the engagement of parents in child-rearing activities, and time allocations of … parents inside the family. We use data from the World Value Survey to construct a country-specific measure of the value …-and second-generation migrant parents in Australia. We show that migrant parents from countries in which obedience is more valued …

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … endogeneity problem, we use a unique survey on households with twin children and a comparison group of non-twin households. The …

We propose a model of how parents resolve conflicts about sharing the negative short and long-term consequences from … can be thought of as a two-stage process: Parents first agree on public expenditures on professional childcare; then …, conditional on the level of public consumption and the budget constraint stemming from stage one, parents determine their …

We propose a model of how parents resolve conflicts about sharing the negative short and long-term consequences from … can be thought of as a two-stage process: Parents first agree on public expenditures on professional childcare; then …, conditional on the level of public consumption and the budget constraint stemming from stage one, parents determine their …

improves the quality of children as a household good. This increases gains from marriage and results in an increase in the … effects of childcare subsidies on labour supply, fertility, marriage, and childcare decisions in a collective setting. In the … model, children are a household good, produced by both parental time and time in childcare. Couples cannot commit to insure …

a cohort of English teenagers in compulsory education. Our results support a situation in which parents 'tax' their … children's earnings, withdrawing financial support as the child increases his working hours. This strategy forces the child to …