cognitive development of lower socioeconomic status children who reached maturity in the mid-20th century …

women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation …. To further explore this channel, we design a randomized survey experiment, in which 1500 Italian women aged 20 to 40 are … exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …

. In a first step, we show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers …' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children's prosociality. In a second step, we present … evidence on a randomly-assigned variation of the social environment, providing children with a mentor for the duration of one …

(CEL) of 1997, and the differentiation in its implementation across regions, as instruments for schooling of young mothers … education of mothers increases the probability of completing the full course of DPT and Hepatitis B vaccinations for their … children. Furthermore, education increases the age of first marriage and birth, changes women's and their spouse's labour …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human … provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care arrangements …

We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal … family types. We compare sibling differences in families where the mother enters the labor force when the children are older … out of the labor force during the entirety of her children’s adolescent years. Our identification strategy is, therefore …

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 … concerned with how mothers’ mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not …

too. In a gift-exchange experiment with independent payoffs between two agents we find causal evidence for peer effects …

than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when … from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely …