. Most of the gaps in college attendance and delay are determined by early family factors. Children from better families and …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

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 …

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 …