chapter explores changes over the period 1997–2008 in homework time for U.S. children in 1st through 12th grade when homework …

bodies responsible for safeguarding children, is the advent of social media, or online social networking. This research … explores the effect of children's digital social networking on their subjective wellbeing. We use a large representative sample … spent chatting on social websites on a number of outcomes which reflect how these children feel about different aspects of …

impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where …

school-going children. When children attend school, the potential time working mothers miss out with their children, is … smaller than when children do not yet attend school. At the same time, working might benefit children through, for example … children enter school.We find no negative relation between maternal working hours and child outcomes as is often found for pre …

Does participation in a social assistance program by parents have spillovers on their children's own participation … exploit a 1993 policy reform in the Netherlands which tightened disability insurance (DI) criteria for existing claimants, and … use rich panel data to link parents to children's long-run outcomes. The key to our regression discontinuity design is …

In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of … native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterize educational attainment in …-over effects from immigrant children to native Dutch children. Immigrant children themselves experience negative language spill …