, because a good deal of inequality is already apparent by the time children start school, and because children’s development … know a good deal from research about what quality means, and about what types of experiences are best for children. The …; offering a more flexible package of supports to families with children under the age of 2 or 3; providing high-quality centre …

children. These factors will vary systematically between and perhaps within cities. This paper explores the sources and the …

(2008), and using Indonesian crosssectional data, I show that people who were exposed to Ramadan fasting during their mother’s … fasting mainly occurring among women who, irrespective of fasting or not, would have had unhealthier children anyway. …

people with children and people without children. Childcare subsidies should increase working hours in the economy and these … effects should differ between people with children and people without children. Public support to families is also expected to … working hours are weak and insignificant. In regressions with time spent caring for children as a dependent variable, the …

current happiness and self-esteem of the children. We find that a past unemployment spell of the father has important … consequences for their children and leads to them having both lower subjective well-being and self-confidence. In addition, this …-esteem predicts educational attainments at 16. Together these findings offer new evidence of unemployment scarring on children …

children’s outcomes in early adulthood. Parental wealth is positively associated with all outcomes examined (which include … association reflects the indirect effect of parental wealth on children’s education whereas for homeownership the estimated …