child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … investment and family outcomes. We find that pregnancy loss improves maternal health investments in the subsequent pregnancy … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …

regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education … better care for their children, thus increasing the socioeconomic gap. …

children's health and cognitive outcomes, and explores whether shocks at certain periods matter more than others. The paper … variation in children's exposure to a negative shock at different periods early in life. It is shown that children exposed to … explored by studying how exposure to the El Niño shock affected key inputs to the production of children's human capital: birth …

results confirm that interventions that improve nutrition and/or health during the first 1,000 days of life can have lasting … positive impacts on cognitive development for children. The finding that the results differ for cognitive functioning and …

children can amplify existing inequalities across generations. Third, inequality can exist even within families, and the …

, where violence is endemic and are particularly pronounced among children of poorly educated mothers, implying that violence … compounds the disadvantage that these children already suffer as a result of their households' lower socioeconomic status. Our …