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 …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …

weekdays, and total caregiving time on weekends. Since the timing of employment is, in part, a choice made by mothers, which is … additional children in the household has a larger effect on caregiving time for standard time workers than nonstandard workers … minutes both during the week and on the weekend only for those mothers who perform some of their paid employment during …

the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are …

-educated counterparts in boosting their children's cognitive skills through their child-care time. Moreover, formal child care is found to … children's cognitive outcomes are greater for the children of less educated mothers, but may be negative for the children of …

on parental employment and wages, child care choices, child development, and center quality. We use our estimates to …

development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means …-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings … study the reform effects on children's language skills, motor skills, socio-emotional stability, and school readiness using …

When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … parents who used to spend time taking care of their children, but to decrease for fulltime working parents because of an … changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for …

As children transition to adulthood, do they continue being a major determinant of parental labor supply? To answer …-age children decrease their annual hours of work after the introduction of these state-wide programs, while fathers do not adjust … their labor supply. Mothers of college-going children are entirely responsible for the decline in hours of work, where …