regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education … better care for their children, thus increasing the socioeconomic gap. …

explained by improvements in early parental investment. This study demonstrates that boosting children's early cognitive skills …

This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio …-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well …

visiting, group parenting, and baby massage, to disadvantaged Irish families raises children's cognitive and socio … by gender and stronger gains for firstborns. The results also suggest that socioeconomic gaps in children's skills are …

This study investigates the role of family structure on cognitive outcomes of children. Using the rich panel data … information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), collected on children and their families … changes in family structure. We find that children who stay-in or move-to non-intact families have lower reading scores than …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children …

The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children …

status in which women raise their children and the family context in which children are raised. We refer to family context as … the combination of womens marital status and the type of households in which children reside. We combine references to the … change empirically, we focus on women aged 25 to 29 and children aged 7 to 16. For reasons that will be displayed during the …