child cognitive outcomes, allowing the effect of formal childcare to be different for children from different family … backgrounds, controlling for a large number of variables (regarding the child, the mother, the father, the household). In a second … step, we simulate how an increase in formal childcare attendance can affect inequalities across children. Our results show …

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 …

term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre …, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are better in naming objects, but worse in tests concerning basic concepts … outcomes is stronger for children in more advantaged households; on the other hand, the negative association is significant …

We construct and estimate a model of child development in which both the parents and children make investments in the … heterogeneity in preferences both for parents and children, and in monitoring costs. Like their parents, children are forward … looking, but we allow children and parents to have different preferences and for children to have age-varying discount rates …

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to …

In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of …

This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on families' time use with their children in urban areas in … course increased families' awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, reading often to the children …

This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … childcare availability has positive and significant effects on both mothers' working status and children's language test scores …. The effects are stronger when the degree of rationing is high and for low educated mothers and children living in lower …

A rich strand of the economic literature has been studying the impact of different forms of early childcare on children … agrees in identifying stronger beneficial effects among children from disadvantaged backgrounds, making a case for the role … cognitive and non-cognitive development of young children and how to reduce gender gaps later in life. Our paper offers a …

-headed families among the poor has generated much interest in the relationship between divorce and the welfare of mothers and children … economic consequence of divorce on the welfare of fathers, mothers and children under alternative behavioral assumptions …