The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the … provide evidence that mothers substitute working time with childcare to compensate for early disadvantages. We do not find any …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist …

a motherhood penalty. We highlight how the fundamental gender-driven career/family conflict faced by workers 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. …

“modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like …

“modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like …

We propose a model of parental altruism in relation to children’s habit formation, as children are unaware of their … habitual preferences, a small income transfer leads to greater welfare. This implies that parents from richer families tend to …