and the development of their children over the past two decades in Australia. Using nationally representative longitudinal … motherhood on child skill development, following children who entered primary school when their mothers were affected by the …

This paper assesses the short-run impact of first-year maternal employment on low-income children's cognitive … Birth cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, the OLS results show that children of working mothers score higher … less likely to breast-feed and read to their children. In addition, such children are exposed to non-parental child care …

movement targeting the needs of children. This paper examines and describes the social and political forces that both impeded …

state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of … voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult household, where both spouses may have marginal rates of substitution … interests of parents and those of children. Depending on the marginal rate of substitution between paternal and maternal …