outline. Then Chapter 2 examines the association between maternal employment and childhood obesity. Chapter 3 takes a … increase of overweight and obese children and considers the higher female employment participation in China. We analyze how … maternal employment is correlated with childhood obesity in China. Our work makes a non-Western comparison in this field, which …

children has a U -shaped effect on parents' involvement in social networks, with substantial differences between fathers and … mothers. The negative effect is dominant on the mothers' involvement in social networks, while the positive effect is dominant …

being out of work on a range of labour market outcomes as young adults. Children of non-working fathers work less and are …