This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational …

visiting, group parenting, and baby massage, to disadvantaged Irish families raises children's cognitive and socio … by gender and stronger gains for firstborns. The results also suggest that socioeconomic gaps in children's skills are …

explained by improvements in early parental investment. This study demonstrates that boosting children's early cognitive skills …

Current and future well-being and economic prosperity of children depend in large part on the nuances of decisions made … children. We estimate differences in the time that immigrant and Canadian-born parents allocate to child-care activities … care-time parents provide for their children, we do find significant differences - by immigrant status - in time …

pre-school children. Using data from the Infant Cohort of the Growing-Up in Ireland Survey, propensity score matching … months old increase the likelihood of being overweight at 3 years old, but only for children of mothers with higher levels of … education. Informal childcare at 9 months also has harmful effects on child weight, but again only for children of more educated …

Objective: To estimate the causal effect of breastfeeding on children's cognitive skills as measured at ages 3, 5, 7 …). Participants: Data on 11,792 (age 3) and 9117 (age 5) children in MCS and 4923 (age 7 and 11) children in NCDS. Main outcome …: The duration of breastfeeding has a small, but significant, effect on children's cognitive skills in the linear regression …