Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …

that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …

Socio- Economic Survey (HSES) to examine the correlation between the presence of children of different age categories in a … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …

This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …

over 70,000 individuals in the Synthetic SIPP Beta to examine the earnings gap between mothers and non-mothers over the … lifecycle and between cohorts. We observe women who never have children beginning to out earn women who will have children … similar patterns, with experience gaps between mothers and non-mothers generally increasing over the lifecycle and de …

Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the …

Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and … national basis. This chapter reviews various types of leave policies available for working mothers (or parents) across … countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …

parental unemployment on children's human capital should be considered by policymakers, as should educational interventions to …

students' social network. We investigate data on European adolescents from the Health Behaviour in School Aged Children survey …