wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited amounts of work by mothers … time these children spend in enriching home environments. Some of the growth in obesity may be related to determinants of …

The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential … negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show that mother's time spent with children … has declined in the last decade, while the indicators of children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes have worsened. The …

suggests that mothers' paid work increased substantially following the introduction of the child care program. I then study the … implications of the Lanham Act for children's long-run outcomes related to educational attainment, family formation, and labor …

Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive …-B administrators strictly controlled the mechanism by which children were assigned to assessment dates. The OLS results show that … children utilizing non-parental arrangements score higher on tests of mental ability, a finding that holds after accounting for …

the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are …

This paper examines parental influence on adolescent risky behavior, focusing on a unique population: children of the … alcohol use and this increased abstinence among children of the clergy persists into adulthood. These results are consistent …

This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal … relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems. Ordinary least squares … results provide strong evidence that maternal substance use is associated with children's behavior problems. Models that …