activities are explained by two factors: (i) that center care replaces time that parents spend with the child but are doing other …

sample of more than 500 parents with pre-school aged children. Our findings show that our tool is reliable and delivers high …

investments by college and non-college educated parents and their children widened up precisely during this first period … growing gaps in time investments between college and non-college educated parents. Competition for university places in the UK …

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score …

the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we measure parental investments by considering the time parents spend with … development, but it is still not clear whether parents respond to changes across time in their child's skills and health. Using … endogeneity issues, we find that parents reinforce for differences in their child's socio-emotional skills, compensate for changes …

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …

Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often … the school depends only on objective measures of the quality of the school. We examine the association between children … parental satisfaction with all aspects of children's schooling. The results have implications related to school rankings and …

The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the …

, spouses' wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to … shocks. We find that behavioral responses to wage shocks depend on the presence of young children. We also find that labor …