children has a U -shaped effect on parents' involvement in social networks, with substantial differences between fathers and … mothers. The negative effect is dominant on the mothers' involvement in social networks, while the positive effect is dominant …

young Canadian men have the same main employer as their fathers but this is positively related to paternal earnings and …

teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is … her friends' mothers' choices when she was a teenager, and the interaction between the two. The empirical salience of this … distant she is (in terms of working hours) from the friends' mothers. …

million jobs over 2009 and 2010. Reflecting longer term structural problems, this employment loss translated into a much …

-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we find that …' behavior is largely independent of the presence (or absence) of their fathers. The strong effect of family structure is not … explained by the lack of paternal involvement that generally comes with fathers' absence, even though adolescents, especially …

contributions, a lump-sum redistribution from fathers to mothers may make children better off, but both parents worse off, or vice … cost of both parents. Thus, proposals to redistribute income from fathers to mothers need to take into account socially …

these expansions are correlated with employment and leave-taking for both mothers and fathers over this period. Our main … finding is that leave expansions have increased the amount of time that new mothers and fathers spend on leave, with effects … the CPS, we describe trends in parents' employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to …