The effect of children and career interruptions on the family gap is analysed based on Danish longitudinal data … when controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, the negative effect of children on mothers? wages disappears. The main … effect of children seems to be loss of human capital accumulation during childbirth periods. Beside this, there is no …

This study investigates the relation between human capital depreciation during family-related career interruptions and … family-related career interruptions, we find that short-term human capital depreciation during these career interruptions is … choose female occupations because of lower short-term wage penalties for family-related career interruptions. Moreover, we …

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 …

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …

The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach … children who now live independently. After controlling for unobserved household characteristics, no positive effect of children …?s actual household income on parents? satisfaction can be found. However, children?s health and education have a positive …

In this paper, we provide evidence of whether child spacing affects the future success of children. As an exogenous …-born mothers, the reform also caused a decrease in educational attainment. Thus, this suggests that the effect of spacing children … closer has a negative impact on children's future outcomes. We provide additional evidence that this is likely due to the …

on children's and parents' outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for … children's cognitive skills. School performance at age 16 increases for children whose father is relatively higher educated …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …