This paper studies how individuals "believe" human capital investments will affect their future career and family life … and family expectations help explain human capital choices …

employ data from the universe of children born in Florida between 1994 and 2002 and in Denmark between 1990 and 2001, which …It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection …, disabled or not. We observe consistentevidence in both locations that the second child in a family is differentially affected …

This paper uses IRS tax data to evaluate the short- and long-term effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act … birth. Overall, PFLA tended to reduce the number of children born and, by decreasing mothers' time at work, increase time … spent with children.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may …

Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and … to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world … introduction of short paid and unpaid leave programs can improve children's short- and long-term outcomes. Fourth, while more …

Most existing evidence on the effectiveness of family leave policies comes from studies focusing on their impacts on … affected families - mothers, fathers, and their children - without a clear understanding of the costs and effects on firms and … Denmark. Using a dynamic difference-in-differences design, we compare small firms in which a female employee is about to give …

: we examine new outcomes related to labor force participation, human capital, and family formation and we do not restrict … men's educational or family outcomes. The results are quite different for women: we find effects on both career and family …

reduce deaths of infants and young children. The magnitudes of the estimated effects are substantial, especially for those …

a discussion of the historical introduction of family policies ever since the end of the nineteenth century and then … turn to the details regarding family policies currently in effect across high-income nations. We sketch a framework … concerning the effects of family policy to motivate our country- and micro-level evidence on the impact of family policies on …

California's first in the nation government-mandated paid family leave program (CA-PFL) on mothers' and fathers' use of leave …