A substantial and growing fraction of children across Europe and the US live in single parent households. Law practices are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation/divorce, driven by the belief that such contact is in the best...

A substantial and growing fraction of children across Europe and the US live in single parent households. Law practices are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation/divorce, driven by the belief that such contact is in the best...

This paper empirically and theoretically links parental time use decisions to child development in a household with two full-time employed parents. Both parents' time spent on childcare is explicitly taken into account as well as childcare bought in the market. It is shown that the quality of...