The first year after childbirth involves dramatic changes to parents’ lives and is crucial for children’s development …. Using plausibly exogenous job loss from mass layoffs, we study the effect of labor shocks on mothers and children. Mothers … effects are present among fathers. Additionally, we find long-lasting harm to children’s educational outcomes. These effects …

in the parental wage gap (PWG)—defined as the relative difference in potential wages of mothers and fathers—on children …Converging labor market opportunities of men and women have altered the economic incentives for how families invest … monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes …

Converging labor market opportunities of men and women have altered the economic incentives for how families invest … monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes … in the parental wage gap (PWG) - defined as the relative difference in potential wages of mothers and fathers - on …

There is a high degree of sex-typing in young children's occupational aspirations and this has consequences for … formation. This study analyzes the determinants of sex-typed occupational aspirations amongst British children aged between 11 …-economic resources have on the scope of children‘s occupational aspirations, 2) children's direct imitation of parental occupations, and …

There is a high degree of sex-typing in young children's occupational aspirations and this has consequences for … amongst British children aged between 11 and 15. We specify different mechanisms involved in the transmission of sex …: 1) the effect that parental socio-economic resources have on the scope of children's occupational aspirations, 2 …

-typed occupational preferences using data for British children aged between 11 and 15. We anchor agency in observable psychological … attributes associated with children's capacity to act in the face of constraints. We focus on two such attributes, motivation and … affect children's occupational ambition, and 2) parental sex-typical behaviors, from which children learn which occupations …

There is a high degree of sex-typing in young children's occupational aspirations and this has consequences for adult … agency in this process. This study analyzes the determinants of sex-typed occupational aspirations amongst British children … scope of children's occupational aspirations, 2) children's imitation of parental occupations, and 3) children's learning of …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native‐born women with time in the United States, and …