In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children … under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long …

Little is currently known about the effects of shocks to parental health on the allocation of children’s time between … health shocks on the amount of children’s time spent in work, leisure and education. One key contribution of the paper is …

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the … more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of … utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD …