Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … thought to be critical to the development of quot;qualityquot; children who will become productive adults. This paper has … three goals related to the examination of parental time allocated to the care of their children. First, using data from the …

We extend earlier research evaluating the Quebec Family Policy by providing the first evidence on the distributional … heterogeneity in the estimated effect of access to subsidized child care across two developmental score distributions for children … from two-parent families. Whereas past research reported findings of negative effects on mothers and children from these …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

This paper studies the multidimensional nature of investments in children within a dynamic framework. In particular, we … inputs and the way parental skills affect the productivity of family-based inputs. Third, we develop an estimation strategy … to estimate the skill production technology for children ages 12 and younger. Our estimates suggest complementarity …

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected American children, including disruptions to their care and school … settings. Children attending in-person child care or school have contended with unpredictable closures and time in remote … investigated the frequency and consequences of disruptions to children’s child care and school arrangements during fall 2020. The …

that the average child under six years of age lives in a family that spends 4.9 percent of after-tax income on day care …. However, this conceals wide variation: 63 percent of such children reside in families with no child care expenses and 10 …

been recently studied, many other dimensions of family well-being have received little attention. This paper attempts to … of family well-being. In addition, we attempt to handle the possibility of non-random selection into subsidy receipt by … care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In …

adult children immediately increase their health investments and improve their health behaviors in response to family shocks …This paper studies how health behaviors and investments are shaped through family spillovers. Leveraging administrative … healthcare data, we identify the effects of health shocks to individuals on their family members' consumption of preventive care …

We study within-family spillovers in college enrollment to show college-going behavior is transmissible between peers …