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 …

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 …

This paper evaluates the impacts of a public program that introduced access to part-time childcare centers for children … children's and parental outcomes. Our identification strategy exploits the original randomization and the distance to the …

status in which women raise their children and the family context in which children are raised. We refer to family context as … change empirically, we focus on women aged 25 to 29 and children aged 7 to 16. For reasons that will be displayed during the … inequality of opportunities in family change. Second, we focus on the implications of family forms on children's school …