benefits to children, and extend choice for parents in finding their preferred work-life strategy. Indeed, the United States … basic support for children, fathers, and mothers in the form of unpaid parental leave, child-related tax breaks, and limited … investments in infants and children. The potential gains from strengthening these policies are enormous. Paid parental leave and …

parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … education and wages for the children born under these policies. The mobility effect, chiefly an increase in intergenerational … mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of …

the CPS, we describe trends in parents' employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to … these expansions are correlated with employment and leave-taking for both mothers and fathers over this period. Our main … than for their counterparts with less schooling. -- Parental leave policies ; parental employment ; leave-taking …