interactions may be important because children enjoy spending time with other children or parents learn from other parents about … the ability of their children. Identification is based on a randomized intervention that grants a cash subsidy encouraging … school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the …

What happens to children’s long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year … difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable improvements in children’s reading and math skills at age 15, as well as in … grade progression during primary and secondary school. Effects are driven by girls and disadvantaged children. …

quantile treatment effects, showing how the child care expansion affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as … adults. We complement these estimates with local linear regressions of the child care effects by family income. Our findings …, and that children of low income parents seem to be the primary beneficiaries of subsidized child care. These findings are …

Using unique panel data, we compare cognitive performance and wagering behavior of children (10-11 years) with adults …

indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found … with regard to mothers’ mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children … in balancing family and work than parental leave payments. The welfare analysis shows that the introduction of subsidies …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …