The explicit costs of raising a child have grown over the past several decades. Less well understood are the implicit … costs of having a child, and how they have changed over time. In this paper we use longitudinal administrative data from … costs of having a child. A decomposition of earnings gaps between mothers of one child and mothers of two children also …

quasi-experimental setting, exploiting a reform that introduced unjust-dismissal costs in Italy for firms below 15 employees … and left firing costs unchanged for bigger firms. Accounting for the endogeneity of the treatment status, we find that …

Recent work criticises both the logic and relevance of the theoretical basis of the approach to estimating the costs of … household members consume market goods with given household income. The "costs of children" are perceived essentially as market … consumption costs. This ignores the fact that an important, possibly preponderant element of child costs takes the form of …

dependence and placing the emphasis on their joint, forward-looking behavior. Using estimation of aggregate, private sector U … investment costs. It is significant and negatively signed, implying complementarity between investment and hiring. There is a … substantial role for aggregate labor market conditions in hiring costs, whereby the latter are lower in "good times." The fit of …