children. Cohabitation also reduces women's propensity to work evenings and weekends, and to hold a second job. The effects are … temporary, and disappear if couples dissolve. I investigate household specialization and gender norms as potential mechanisms … gender norms predicts the magnitude of the penalty. My analysis relies on a unique identification of cohabiting but otherwise …

This paper examines the extent to which mothers that care for children where the father is non-resident have an award … or agreement for child support in place. Data from the Families and Children Study are used to explore not only whether … disadvantaged. Moreover, awards were less commonplace where there were fewer children, where mothers claimed Income Support, were …

sufficiently low gender wage gap), Intermediate-gap couples (with an intermediate gender wage gap) and high-gap couples (with a … sufficiently high gender wage gap). Our model predicts that while egalitarian couples never specialize and always share home … more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of …

larger share of family resources. Policies empowering women can yield additional positive externalities for children's human … indicate that the HSAA improved children's height and weight. Furthermore, we uncover evidence supporting a mechanism whereby … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …

, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on outcomes for the children concerned. There are good reasons for … thinking that CS could leverage better outcomes than other forms of income support and, using a sample of dependent children in …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …

Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income … equally. We also find that individual gender norms matter both for women's involvement in unpaid work at home and for the …

Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income … equally. We also find that individual gender norms matter both for women's involvement in unpaid work at home and for the …

compatible with the notion that children do better when their mothers control a more significant fraction of the family resources …-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold …

substantial rise in neglect. The likely channel is lower quality-time spent with children rather than decreased financial … investments. Expenditures on children remain stable during recessions. Instead, higher local-area unemployment rate reduces …