aims to answer the questions: What works in terms of early stimulation for young children in developing countries? For whom …. Firstly, a brief discussion of the importance of early stimulation for young children in developing countries is provided …

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers …. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … substantial differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives …

at increasing working hours amongst British mothers of pre-school children may need to focus on the quality as well as … the importance of childcare related variables. We find working mothers do not increase their working hours when hourly … wages increase, indeed, they are more likely to reduce their hours. The major inducement for working mothers to increase …

$2,100, between 1993 and 1997. Using a panel of roughly 4,500 children matched to their mothers from National … measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children … math and reading test scores by 6% of a standard deviation in the short-run. Test gains are larger for children from …