children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR …-parental child care supply, which are issues many other studies on parental leave reforms face. Using data from the German Socio …

universal child care during a period of national reform to raise and equalize the child care coverage across Norway. We apply a …Recent analyses of intergenerational mobility show that investments in children pay big dividends. The priority of … resources in early childhood also affects the working of the local economy. Geographic variation in child care services …

In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The present paper is … concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not …. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care usage on mother-child interaction are examined. The analysis is based on data …

, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare. Child benefits and subsidies for external child care are more effective …

In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation … 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. …

Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less … care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (n > 600), treated families receive … likely to be enrolled. We study whether reducing behavioral barriers in the application process increases enrollment in child …

The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours … are affected if schools and child-care centers remain closed. In most European countries, the share of affected working …

This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting …

This study tests an intervention that introduces a structured curriculum for five-year olds into the universal … impacts on children's development in mathematics, language and executive functioning. Compared to business as usual, the nine …-month curriculum intervention has effects on child development at post-intervention and the effects persist one year following the end …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that … arrival of a second-born child extends early-childhood parental investments for first-borns. …