the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children (the DALSC). All outcomes are measured at … age 11 when the children are expected to be in fifth grade. Once discrepancies are detected, we analyze whether they are …

Increasing mothers' labour supply in a child's preschool years can cause a reduction in time investments that lead to a … negative direct effect on mid-childhood and teenage outcomes. But as mothers' work hours increase, income will rise. We ask … variation in both mothers' hours and family income in pre-school years. As expected we find a negative direct effect of an …

for children of mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of unpaid leave …We study the impact on children of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year by … school dropout. For mothers with low education we find a 5.2 percentage points decline. The effect is also especially large …

to transfer their human capital to their children. Finally, focusing only on non-infected mothers and their children, we …) for 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa that provide information on mother's HIV status and enable us to link mothers and … their children. The data also allow us to distinguish between two separate channels that are likely to differentially affect …

mothers spend with their children. Since the institutional context is one in which the alternative is subsidized day care, the …We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate …

30. The effect is especially large for children of those mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of …We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid … maternity leave in Norway in July 1977. Mothers giving birth before this date were eligible only for 12 weeks of unpaid leave …

this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health …

We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …

Are there skill differentials in young children's competence levels by their self-regulation abilities and do such … background variables.Our results imply a positive association between children's self-regulation and their mathematical … substantially. Heterogeneity analyses indicate that self-regulation benefits children with low initial levels of mathematical …