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 …

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 …

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

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 …

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members …

families have fewer children than poor ones (when the elasticity of substitution between children and consumption is large …

In this paper, we present a model of a one parent-one child household where parental decisions on labor supply, leisure …