equally, but parents rarely track their spending on each child. We investigate in four studies whether mothers and fathers …. Mothers consistently favored daughters, whereas fathers consistently favored sons. For example, parents were more likely to …

While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply, less is known about fathers … presence at home as a function of domestic stochastic shocks, and use variation from a Swedish reform that granted new fathers … physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from …

While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply, less is known about fathers … presence at home as a function of domestic stochastic shocks, and use variation from a Swedish reform that granted new fathers … physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from …

of mothers and fathers to children's development. Research findings indicate distinctive contributions from mothers and … safety of children. Although fathers and mothers bring many similar capacities that enable healthy child development, they …. These parenting differences appear to enable fathers and mothers to influence the same developmental domains through …

This paper tests whether mothers and fathers differ in their spending on their daughters relative to their sons. We … compare mothers' and fathers' willingness to pay (WTP) for specific goods for their children, diverging from the previous … literature's approach of comparing the expenditure effects of mothers' versus fathers' income. Our method, which we apply in …