Using difference‐in‐difference and difference‐in‐difference‐in‐difference designs, we study
California's Paid Family Leave (CA‐PFL) program, the first source of government‐provided …

We study the effect of birth order on personality using Swedish population data. Earlier-born
men are more emotionally stable, persistent, socially outgoing, willing to assume …

Childbearing decisions are not made in isolation. They are taken in concert with decisions
regarding work, marriage, health investments and stocks, as well as many other observable …

In this article, we examine several techniques that allow for the construction of bounds
estimates based on instrumental variables, even when the instruments are not valid. We …

This paper studies the life-cycle impacts of a widely emulated high-quality, intensive early
childhood program with long-term follow up. The program starts early in life (at 8 weeks of …

Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and
childcare attendance to childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a …

Gender-role attitudes capture individuals' degree of support for traditional divisions of paid
and domestic work and have been linked to the production and reproduction of gender …

Working-age grandparents supply large amounts of child care, an observation that raises
the question of how having grandchildren affects grandparents' own labor supply. Exploiting …

We examine the differential effects of family disadvantage on the education and adult labor
market outcomes of men and women using high-quality administrative data on the entire …

Can financial incentives resolve the fertility-sex ratio trade-off faced by countries with
persistent son preference and easy access to sex-selection technology? An Indian program …