can offer their working offspring a free, flexible, and reliable source of childcare. However, while grandparent …-provided childcare helps young parents (especially young mothers) overcome the negative effects of child rearing on their labor market …

family friendly policies chosen in the Nordic countries are unique. The availability of generous parental leave schemes … evaluate family-friendly policies in the 'Nordic model' with respect to the two modes of child care i.e. either parental care …-off between family-friendly policies and family welfare, and are there serious negative boomerang effects of family …

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …-being through their impact on maternal time at home and family stability …

family-friendly policies chosen in the Nordic countries are unique. The availability of generous parental leave schemes … evaluate family-friendly policies in the 'Nordic model' with respect to the two modes of child care i.e. either parental care …-off between family-friendly policies and family welfare, and are there serious negative boomerang effects of family …

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …-being through their impact on maternal time at home and family stability. -- child benefit ; policy evaluation ; fertility …

assessment scores (PPVT-R) for children aged 4-5 years are estimated controlling for a variety of non-parental childcare and …

presence of social norms associated to the household division of housework and childcare. First, we observe that wives that … earn more than their husbands still undertake more than 50% of housework and childcare. Second, we find that a woman … her husband. Finally, independently of the definition of childcare, the relative time devoted to childcare does not vary …

This paper describes a dynamic system for the interrelationships between happiness and health that considers three main … empirical and theoretical studies to affect individual health and happiness are included (i.e., employment, occupation …-ante, and ex-post behavioural. I develop the model to rank the three attitudes in terms of health for a given happiness level …