children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

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 …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in … substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children’s age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …

-curricular activities, on children's skill development. Our results indicate positive effects: both cognitive skills, measured by school … datasets as well as alternative estimation and identification strategies. The effects can be partially explained by increased …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …

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 …