In this article we analyse the impact of spousal preference expectations on mothers' willingness to invest in children … sharing, uncertainty is created which decreases cooperation by mothers by reducing their willingness to invest in children … financial information, resources tend to be under-allocated in household public goods such as children. …

allocation of resources within household tend to move to the disadvantage of women after a childbirth. One additional child is …

time mothers spend with their children. Since the institutional context is one in which the alternative is subsidized day …We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate …

30. The effect is especially large for children of those mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of …We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid … maternity leave in Norway in July 1977. Mothers giving birth before this date were eligible only for 12 weeks of unpaid leave …