Daniela Del Boca is a Professor of Economics at the University of Turin, Fellow of Collegio Carlo Alberto, Research Associate of the Institute of Human Development and Social Change at NYU (IHDSC) and Director of the Center for Household Income, Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD). She has published several books and articles in the area of Labor Economics and the Economics of the Family, including The American Economic Review, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Population Economics,Labour Economics, the Review of Income and Wealth, European Economic Review and Oxford Economic