wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited amounts of work by mothers … time these children spend in enriching home environments. Some of the growth in obesity may be related to determinants of …

parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … family leave policies across the United States since 1973 with over 40 years of survey data covering two generations of … District of Columbia before the enactment of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in 1993, we find that the pre …

that the average child under six years of age lives in a family that spends 4.9 percent of after-tax income on day care …. However, this conceals wide variation: 63 percent of such children reside in families with no child care expenses and 10 …

policies aiming to increase maternal employment and those maximizing the choices available to families with young children …

-age children have widened but not for those with younger children. Triple-difference estimates are consistent with most of the … reductions observed for women with school-age children being attributable to additional child care responsibilities (the "COVID …

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between parental labor supply, children's cognitive development and intra … Credit, in terms of fostering child cognition and reducing intra-household inequality, could be improved by giving cash to … 25 percent subsidy could boost young children's skills by over 0.1 standard deviations, increase maternal labor supply …

One goal of the paid family leave (PFL) is to help working mothers balance their careers and family responsibilities …

Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and … to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world … introduction of short paid and unpaid leave programs can improve children's short- and long-term outcomes. Fourth, while more …