The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the …

reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …

raising children adopted in much of the economics literature. This tends to be restricted purely to models in which the … household members consume market goods with given household income. The "costs of children" are perceived essentially as market … leisure, to care for children. The studies also ignore the question of the distribution of income among adults and, in …

children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision … data from Germany, we also present empirical evidence which is consistent with this finding …

Norwegian parents of preschool children make their care choices from a completely different choice set compared to what …

In Germany, it has become conventional wisdom that the economic uncertainty associated fixed-term employment contracts … prevents young couples from realizing their desire to have children. From a research perspective, it is however far from clear … couples choose to have children early on in life, postpone it to later in life, or decide to remain childless? And: to what …