The current COVID-19 crisis, with its associated school and daycare closures as well as
social-distancing requirements, has the potential to magnify gender differences both in terms …

I document that the labor force participation rate of West German mothers with children aged
zero to two exceeds the corresponding child-care enrollment rate, while the opposite is true …

Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has
been (1) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children;(2) a rise in …

This paper provides an overview of the relationship between tax policy and gender equality,
covering labor, capital and wealth, as well as consumption taxes. It considers implicit and …

We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labour supply of married
couples across seventeen European countries and the US Based on a model of joint …

What are the macroeconomic effects of transfers to households with children? How do
alternative policies fare in welfare terms? We answer these questions in an equilibrium life …

We propose a dynamic non-cooperative framework for long-term-care (LTC) decisions of
families and use it to evaluate LTC policy options for the US We first document the …

Using comparable data for 24 countries since the 1970s, we document gender convergence
in schooling, employment and earnings, marriage delay, and the accompanying decline in …

Grandparents are regular providers of free child care. Similar to other forms of child care,
availability of grandparent-provided child care has positive effects on fertility and mothers' …

This paper measures how much of the gender wage gap over the life cycle is due to the fact
that working hours are lower for women than for men. We build a quantitative theory of …