schooling in Lesotho and suggests that impacts on child welfare are influenced by time and labour constraints and by gender …-based differences in opportunity costs of a child’s time. …

We investigate the importance of various mechanisms by which child care policies can affect life-cycle patterns of … employment, fertility, and child care use is estimated using Norwegian administrative data. The estimation exploits a large …-scale child care reform, which provided generous cash transfers to mothers who did not use formal child care facilities. Combining …

are shorter for their age and perform poorer in the math test. Interestingly, the effect on child's heath is observed at …

. Among families with at least one child we identify the average causal effect of an additional child on mother's employment …