This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on families' time use with their children in urban areas in … order to conduct the impact evaluation, we designed a randomized controlled trial involving random assignment of the … course increased families' awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, reading often to the children …

child cognitive outcomes, allowing the effect of formal childcare to be different for children from different family … step, we simulate how an increase in formal childcare attendance can affect inequalities across children. Our results show … that childcare attendance has a positive impact on child cognitive outcomes, which are stronger for children from low socio …

data. Results show the beneficial effects on children's behaviour of sports, school-related activities, time with parents …In this paper, we study the effects of extra-school activities on children's non-cognitive development, using data from … the Millennium Cohort Study (UK) and focusing on children aged 7-11 years old. We classify the time spent out of school …

likely to put much weight on expenditures on the man's children from his previous union. Thus, his own and his partner …'s income would have different impacts on his child support payments if partners' relative incomes affect bargaining power in … the impacts of intra-household income distribution on child support payments and the father's welfare. We find that a …

, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are better in naming objects, but worse in tests concerning basic concepts … term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre … outcomes is stronger for children in more advantaged households; on the other hand, the negative association is significant …

This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … childcare availability has positive and significant effects on both mothers' working status and children's language test scores …. The effects are stronger when the degree of rationing is high and for low educated mothers and children living in lower …