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 …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

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

. This pattern of reverse selection on gains is driven by unobserved family background characteristics: children from … children with lower (observed and unobserved) gains are more likely to select into child care than children with higher gains … disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment …

'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 …

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 …

We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we …, 1991, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children … have a roughly 8% higher survival probability than women without children …

It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection … employ data from the universe of children born in Florida between 1994 and 2002 and in Denmark between 1990 and 2001, which …, disabled or not. We observe consistent evidence in both locations that the second child in a family is differentially affected …