France and the United Kingdom represent two contrasting institutional models for the integration of employment and … mothers. Using the two countries as comparative case studies, the authors develop and test the hypothesis that the socio … occupations in France, but this was still much earlier on average than for all but low-skill British mothers …

mothers and fathers, particularly fathers, spend more time with their children, and the variety of activities parents engage …-old children in Turkey. As the source of exogenous variation in maternal schooling, we use mothers' exposure to the 1997 education … mothers' educational attainment and a rise in children's readiness to learn. Our finding is novel because it measures …

mothers and fathers, particularly fathers, spend more time with their children, and the variety of activities parents engage …-old children in Turkey. As the source of exogenous variation in maternal schooling, we use mothers' exposure to the 1997 education … mothers' educational attainment and a rise in children's readiness to learn. Our finding is novel because it measures …

childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in … parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents' knowledge of their children's endowments and about the technology used to …

childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in … parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents' knowledge of their children's endowments and about the technology used to …

sample of mothers and adolescents in the British Household Panel Survey. Research that examines the effects of maternal … employment on children has been motivated by the rapid increase of female participation rates in the labour market and increased … employment (as opposed to part-time) has little or no effect on the propensity of adolescents to smoke, their life satisfaction …

sample of mothers and adolescents in the British Household Panel Survey. Research that examines the effects of maternal … employment on children has been motivated by the rapid increase of female participation rates in the labour market and increased … employment (as opposed to part-time) has little or no effect on the propensity of adolescents to smoke, their life satisfaction …

childbearing decreases the probability of post-16 schooling by 12% to 24%. Employment experience is reduced by up to three years …

Previous research has shown that fathers taking some time off work around childbirth, especially periods of leave of 2 … or more weeks, are more likely to be involved in childcare related activities than fathers who do not do so. Furthermore …, evidence suggests that children with fathers who are ‘more involved’ perform better during the early years than their peers …