When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … parents who used to spend time taking care of their children, but to decrease for fulltime working parents because of an … income effect: child care expenses drop. We show that the effect of additional time dominates the income effect in the …

Children as a social investment -- Paying for children -- Caring for children -- Children and the search for a work …

Introduction -- Children and the economy -- Commitments and capabilities -- Defining the costs of children -- Children … and family budgets / with Tamara Ohler -- Children outside the household -- Accounting for family time / with Jayoung Yoon … -- Valuing family work -- Subsidizing parents -- Public spending on children's education and health -- Who should pay for the …

environment and preschool well-being : an examination of children entering the child welfare system during infancy / Brenda Jones … Harden ... [et al.] -- Risk and resilience among children referred to the child welfare system : a longitudinal investigation … ... [et al.] -- Patterns and predictors of mental health services use by children in contact with the child welfare system …

, especially those of mothers with young children. This trend has triggered an intense debate about its implications for children …'s well-being and long-term educational outcomes. The overall effect of maternal and paternal employment on children …'s cognitive and educational attainment is not obvious: on the one hand, children may benefit from higher levels of family income …

We argue that previous research on time devoted to child care has devoted insufficient attention to the definition and … conceptualization of care time. Three separate problems are evident. First, the conventional focus on explicit activities with children … distracts attention from the larger responsibilities of "passive" care, which ranges from time when children are sleeping to …