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 …

on children’s and parents’ outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for … children’s cognitive skills. School performance at age 16 increases for children whose father is relatively higher educated …

that a public policy that disregards the effects of parental time on children's human capital entails a welfare loss that …

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

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 …

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 …

reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children …