The early development of non-cognitive skills has longlasting benefits for children's sub- sequent educational … attainment and wages. Drawing on a rich, nationally representative longitudinal sample of young children in Ireland, we present …-parental care. This is equivalent to 44% of the difference in externalising behaviour between children with a mother with …

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 … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …

evidence that one type of non-parental care outperforms the other, though children who have been placed in preschool tend to …

the child home environment and reduce stress has larger returns for children with higher socio-emotional skills in early … stressful home environment, an increase has a higher return for children with lower socio-emotional skills in early childhood …

This study investigates the effect of grandparental care on children's locus of control (LOC), which is an important … non-cognitive skill that affects children's future development. We use data from the China Family Panel Studies, which is … choice. We find that children in the care of their grandparents have more external LOC than children in the care of their …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children's age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …

While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of … no evidence that starting child care earlier affects children's outcomes in the short- or medium-run. Our precise …

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 … is stronger for children in more advantaged households; on the other hand, the negative association is significant only …

More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care … entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000 children in one West German state, we use a marginal treatment effects … framework to show how causal effects vary with observed characteristics of children, parents, and care centers and with …