focus is on child care for children aged 0-3, because this is a critical period for working mothers and their children and … because most European and American households with children aged 3-5 already use child care centers. The paper provides data … reviews and compares empirical results regarding the impact of child care costs, availability and quality. Finally, the paper …

need to provide family long-term care (LTC) and womens labor supply in four Latin American countries. Descriptive analysis …-term family caregivers and account for 72% to 88% of total hours of LTC; (ii) consistently across countries, women who provide LTC … households with fewer children) make this provision of LTC within the home unsustainable, increasing the need for public policy …

a discussion of the historical introduction of family policies ever since the end of the nineteenth century and then … turn to the details regarding family policies currently in effect across high-income nations. We sketch a framework … concerning the effects of family policy to motivate our country- and micro-level evidence on the impact of family policies on …

Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in … mother reduces potential child care time in the family. Reduced child care time may have adverse effects on the prevalence of … obesity in children and adults. This paper analyzes the effect of mother’s labor supply in childhood on young adults …

benefit reform in Germany that considerably increased the financial incentives, by up to 21,000 EUR, for highly educated and …

A child's family structure is a fundamental determinant of future well-being, making it essential to understand how … number of children growing up outside of marriage. …

arrangements in Germany. …

-year-olds. However, more than a third of children enrolled in preschool programs have insufficient attendance, with absenteeism higher in … schools in lower socioeconomic areas and among younger preschool children. This paper presents the results of a behavioral … impact of nudging parents on attendance and learning for school-age children; this is the first experiment looking at both …

mental health but observed a decrease in physical violence against children among female caregivers. While these findings … differ from the results of in-person interventions, they align with theories that link economic deprivation and family …