offers three important innovations. First, we use reliable measures of the child’s cognitive, mental and emotional skills as … important implications for the quality of the parent-child relationship. -- cognitive skills ; noncognitive skills ; critical …

This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting …

We argue that previous research on time devoted to child care has devoted insufficient attention to the definition and … the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics sheds light on these three problems and develops …

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 …

We propose a household production function approach to human development in which the role of parenting style in child …