The entry into fatherhood is a major life course transition involving the acquisition of new adult roles and responsibilities. This transition is rarely planned for young fathers, and may involve a range of challenges, not least their capacity to provide materially and financially for their child. Drawing on a Qualitative Longitudinal study of young fathers in the UK, this article charts their ...

OBJECTIVES The study aims at exploring the feelings and the experience of fathers about their wife/partner's delivery. BACKGROUND During the last decades birth attendance by fathers is a common phenomenon across many countries. Fathers' birth attendance may evoke both positive and negative feelings. METHODOLOGY The study was conducted in a city of Northern Greece. The sample consisted of 41...

In this paper we examine gender differences in the inter-generational persistence of child labor within the context of intra-household resource allocation. We begin by building an intra-household allocation model where fathers and mothers may affect the education investment and the child labor participation of their sons and daughters differently due to differences in the children's human capit...

The aim of this paper is to analyse intergenerational earnings mobility in Britain for cohorts of sons born between 1950 and 1972. Since there are no British surveys with information on both sons and their fathers’ earnings covering the above period, we consider two separate samples from the British Household Panel Survey: a first sample containing information on sons’ earnings and a set of occ...

This paper extends the previous literature on the intergenerational transmission of human capital by exploiting variation in compulsory schooling reforms across nine European countries over the period 1920-1956. My empirical strategy follows an IV approach, instrumenting parental education with years of compulsory schooling. I nd some evidence of a causal relationship between parents' and child...

Aim/Purpose: Doctoral students who are parents increasingly more common, particularly in female-dominated disciplines, such as education. This study aims to examine the experiences of pursuing an education doctorate Background: examines doctoral and their perceptions support order determine how programs faculty can better serve students. Methodology: mixed methods 52 were or became during progr...