This paper investigates the impact of attending early childcare on second generation immigrant children's cognitive … attendance differs between native and immigrant children. Although we find no effects for Italian children, our estimates show a … positive and significant effect on literacy test scores for immigrant children of low educated mothers, which suggests that …

bargaining approach, the decision to delay graduation or dropout from university is related to bargaining within the family … between parents and children: the former give their children better consumption opportunities in return for their presence at …

Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers’ labor force … participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the …

children’s cognitive outcomes. My identification strategy exploits geographical differences in terms of exposure to the program … children. In turn, the effect is only significant for mother with negative effect on the interaction between mother and … children, which means that there is a substitution effect, mother use this time to do something else. These findings call for …

regression discontinuity estimator based on children’s birth months, we find a sizable effect of childcare attendance on women …

This study explores the differential impact of weather on time allocation to physical activity and sleep by children … hot temperatures or rain, cause children to reduce physical activity time and increase sedentary time. However, such … weather conditions have little impact on children's sleep time or the time allocation of their parents. We also find …

larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that …