This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The … for fathers. The presence of a childcare worker per child reduces the time cost of children to a couple of parents by 5% … home production and labor supply. Time costs are computed in terms of hours of foregone leisure. The model accounts for …

The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the … provide evidence that mothers substitute working time with childcare to compensate for early disadvantages. We do not find any …

mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we … relatively small or zero. The pattern of results is more pronounced for lower education mothers. The lack of large decreases in … activities are explained by two factors: (i) that center care replaces time that parents spend with the child but are doing other …

In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental … sizeable for families with children. …

reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …

This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The … for fathers. The presence of a childcare worker per child reduces the time cost of children to a couple of parents by 5 …%. -- children ; time costs ; leisure …

, especially those of mothers with young children. This trend has triggered an intense debate about its implications for children …, on the other hand, parental employment reduces the amount of time parents spend with their children. …'s well-being and long-term educational outcomes. The overall effect of maternal and paternal employment on children …

welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and … working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, the study focuses on mono-nuclear families with children under … mothers' alcohol consumption. We interpret these findings as evidence of a negative impact of fathers' alcohol consumption on …

this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using …-nuclear families with children under fifteen years of age. We find that fathers' alcohol consumption has a negative impact on their … weekly hours spent doing child care, while no significant effect is observed for mothers' alcohol consumption …