"Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children … is thought to be critical to the development of "quality" children who will become productive adults. This paper has … three goals related to the examination of parental time allocated to the care of their children. First, using data from the …

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score …

, leisure, market work, and caregiving. The first goal of this estimation is to determine if time spent with children responds … their children does not respond to price or demographic changes much like home production or leisure and that, somewhat …

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 …