Two interesting papers today

Two interesting papers today: "Time for Children: Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009" and "The Labor Market Impact of Employer Health Benefit Mandates: Evidence from San Francisco's Health Care Security Ordinance."

The first one analyzes two important resources for children’s well-being: time and money. In the prior decades parents who would have remained at home have joined the labor market and as a result of this has increased the income of their children. Time use data from 1975 and 2003-2008 shows that working parents spend less time on primary childcare than parents who do not work, but spend more time than employed parents in of previous cohorts