Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … thought to be critical to the development of "quality" children who will become productive adults. This paper has three goals … related to the examination of parental time allocated to the care of their children. First, using data from the recent …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

Parents may have important effects on their children, but little work in economics explores whether children …'s schooling opportunities crowd out or encourage parents' investment in children. We analyze data from the Head Start Impact Study …, which granted randomly-chosen preschool-aged children the opportunity to attend Head Start. We find that Head Start causes a …

reviews a large body of empirical work investigating whether these programs make a difference for children's development, and … life outcomes. This suggests that early childhood programs might play a significant role in helping children realize their …

that subsidized children are more likely to receive intense exposure to low-quality child care …

Young children in poor communities are spending more hours in non-parental care due to policy reforms and expansion of … early childhood programs. Studies show positive effects of high-quality center-based care on children's cognitive growth …-based care. Using a sample of children age 12 to 42 months when their mothers entered welfare-to-work programs, this paper finds …

This paper analyzes the relationship between maternal labor supply and children's cognitive development, using a sample … of three- and four-year-old children of female respondents from the 1986 National Longitudinal Surveys Youth Cohort (NLSY …). Respondents in the NLSY were aged 21 to 29 in 1986; thus our sample consists of children of relatively young mothers. We show that …

Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long …

This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their … used a lottery to assign children to limited public daycare openings. Winning the lottery translated to a 34 percent …, by which time all children were eligible for universal schooling). The rise in labor force participation is driven …