While more and more married women participate in paid work, men have not equalized the division of labor by appreciably increasing the time they devote to unpaid domestic tasks. The state can assist in managing this double time burden on women by enabling families to externalize a portion of it...

Constructing typologies or categories of welfare states characterized social policy research during the last decade. Esping-Andersen's Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990) launched an avalanche of typologies. Interest in cross-national comparisons has been facilitated by several attempts to...

This paper studies how health behaviors and investments are shaped through intra- and inter-generational family spillovers. Specffically, leveraging administrative healthcare data, we identify the effects of health shocks to individuals on their family members' consumption of preventive care and...

Die staatliche Familienförderung unterstützt Familien stark bei den Kosten, die ihnen aufgrund der Konsumausgaben für ihre Kinder entstehen, und weniger bei den Kosten in Form entgangener Einkommen. Insbesondere Maßnahmen zur Vermeidung von Einkommensverlusten sind vergleichsweise gering...

Das Thema familienfreundliche Arbeitswelt genießt aus Sicht der befragten Unternehmen in den sechs ausgewählten europäischen Ländern einen hohen Stellenwert. Der Europäische Unternehmensmonitor Familienfreundlichkeit zeigt, dass ein umfangreiches Angebot an familienfreundlichen...

Specific research on the socio-cultural context of population programs has rarely been undertaken. If one wants fo find material on this issue, it is always related to other more general subjects such as women's status, traditional cultures, family life, health services, married women, family...

Using a nationally-representative panel data set of U.S. high school students (AddHealth data) that contains a relatively large sample of siblings and twins, the paper investigates the impacts of gun availability at home and individual drug use on robbery, burglary, theft and damaging property...

The previous literature on the determinants of individual well-being has failed to fully account for the interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit model with multiple random effects that allows to identify the intrafamily correlation in...