Since the millennium, the labor market participation of women and mothers is increasing across European countries … burden with respect to gainful employment and providing care. We propose a family working time model that incentivizes … fathers and – contrary to most conventional family policies – actively promotes the dual earner/dual carer paradigm. Combining …

-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by …) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …