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 …

household. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Surveyfrom 1989 to 2006, we apply a fixed-effects model to control for … cross-household hetero-geneity in son preference. We find that the birth of sons rather than daughters significantlyreduces … maternal time spent on household chores, which we argue represents an increasein maternal intra-household bargaining power …

formation of children. To this end, we exploit a nationwide reform that mandated Swedish municipalities to offer childcare … access for infants' older siblings, while parents were on parental leave to care for their infants. Survey data on childcare … effects on the children's 6th grade test scores, but we find evidence of positive effects on test scores for sons of less than …

future.’ In this article, I examine trends in the employment gap between mothers and fathers of young children over the last …