This paper analyses non-market time uses by two-parent families with at least one child aged less than 18 years, and the sharing of parental and domestic tasks between men and women. The analysis is based on data from Statistic Canada's 1986 and 1992 Surveys on the Use on Time by Canadians. The...

This paper presents results from the estimation of Browning, Deaton and Irish's life-cycle household model (Econometrica 1985) with eighteen waves and 380 couples from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. A labor supply equation is estimated for both husbands and wives. We present an econometric...

This paper presents estimates for a neo-classical life-cycle labor supply model. The wife's wage equation is jointly estimated with the wife's and husband's labor supply equations. The estimation technique captures the dynamics of the model with fixed-effects that are estimated for all...

Ce texte présente les estimations d'un modèle néoclassique de forme réduite de la détermination des naissances canadiennes depuis 1950. La technique économétrique utilisée est adaptée au caractère dynamique du phénomène de la fécondité en plus d'intégrer des facettes originales...

Cette étude cherche à identifier l'influence des caractéristiques socio-économiques des femmes chef de famille monoparentale au Canada sur leur propension à former une union conjugale. Elle s'appuie sur des données rétrospectives construites à partir de l'Enquête sociale générale sur...

We utilized a unique dataset of Montreal residents to estimate the relationship between employment and mental health, controlling for endogeneity. We applied a maximum likelihood, simultaneous equation generalized probit model to estimate jointly the determinants of an individual's latent index...

The goal of this research was to find evidence for serious negative effects of employment conditions on different measures of child outcomes taking into account the family background characteristics and family income. In particular, we wanted to know whether the mother's job characteristics...

This paper gauges the strenght of precautionary saving motives by estimating the coefficient of prudence from the U.K. Family Expenditure Survey data set (a time series of cross-sections). Most instrumental variables estimates reveal that larger uncertainty leads to smaller current saving, and...

On September 1st, 1997, a new childcare policy was initiated by the provincial government of Quebec, the second most populous province in Canada. Childcare services licensed by the Ministry of the Family (not-for-profit centres, family-based childcare, and for-profit centres under the agreement)...

This paper presents estimates of the effects of family background, family income and parental work - especially maternal employment - on the behavioural development of young children. The particular outcomes analysed are children's scores on development-assessment instruments measuring cognitive...