Many scholars have expressed fears that the 2019 coronavirus pandemic may exacerbate gender inequalities. Indeed, studies suggested women, and mothers in particular, been particularly affected by reducing their participation paid labor market to meet increased caregiving needs. What is less clear whether has also shifted attitudes about mothers’ fathers’ roles. We collected data on gendered par...

The current study seeks to contribute the growing yet limited literature informing intervention development tailored for African American fathers of sons who are at-risk youth depressive symptoms and aggressive behaviors. We conducted semi-structured, qualitative interviews with 30 self-identified, American, biological pre-adolescent (8–12 years old) sons. Informed by grounded theory analysis m...

This paper examines the impact of a change in the German child benefit system in 1996, which led to a large increase in lump sum transfers to families with children. We analyze the impact on the labor force participation of family members as well as on household consumption directed to children. Comparing behavioral changes of adults with children with behavioral changes of adults without child...

Men who are raising dependent children after their spouses or partners have died from cancer face unique challenges adjusting to single parenthood while managing their grief and the grief of their children. Unfortunately, the needs of those widowers have been overlooked in the clinical literature and no published interventions are designed specifically for that population. The current article d...

Background: Mothers’ and fathers’ participation in nonstandard employment across children’s lives is not well understood the United Kingdom. Objective: The first objective to describe prevalence of work schedules (e.g., evenings, weekends, nights) among employed mothers fathers using longitudinal data. second document education gradient parental over decade a child’s life. Methods: Linear proba...

This study uses a new data set which merges the Social Security earnings histories of parents and children in the 1984 Survey of Income and Program Participation to measure the intergenerational elasticity in earnings in the United States. Earlier studies that found an intergenerational elasticity of 0.4 have typically used only five year averages of fathers’ earnings to measure fathers’ perman...

This paper analyzes the connections between three concurrent trends since 1950: (1) the narrowing and reversal of the educational gender gap; (2) the increasing labor force participation rate (LFPR) of married women; (3) the rising incidence of children living with only one parent. We hypothesize that the education production for boys is more adversely affected by a decrease in parental time in...