the home. Child care costs are found to have little impact on the labor market participation decision of mothers. The …

the home. Child care costs are found to have little impact on the labor market participation decision of mothers. The …

We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little … attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities … countries (France, Italy and Germany) on the link between time allocation by parents and time allocation by youngsters …

market entry especially among higher educated women. In France, the extension of paid leave for second born children in 1994 … reduced labour market entry. We found however, no significant effect of the 1986 reform for third children and the 2004 reform … introducing a paid leave of six months for first-born children. In Hungary, labour market entry of mothers was influenced by …

This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The …%. -- children ; time costs ; leisure … home production and labor supply. Time costs are computed in terms of hours of foregone leisure. The model accounts for …

-time, which can be more attractive for fathers. Using administrative data and comparing parents of children born before and after …

characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community … influenced by the presence of young children in the household, by the total non-labor income, and by the ratio of mothers' non …-labor income to family's non-labor income, with this latter variable exhibiting a different behavior across genders and across …