In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of …

The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential … negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show that mother's time spent with children … has declined in the last decade, while the indicators of children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes have worsened. The …

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 …

term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre …, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are better in naming objects, but worse in tests concerning basic concepts … outcomes is stronger for children in more advantaged households; on the other hand, the negative association is significant …

reduction in nutrition intake as a result of gift-giving can have a lasting detrimental health impact on their children. Using a … height-for-age z-score of children born to poor families This finding sheds some light on the 'food puzzle' raised by Deaton …

payment equips adult children of pensioners to migrate. Employing a regression discontinuity (hereafter RD) design to a … increase among adult sons (but not daughters) to migrate out of their home county. Meanwhile, adult children are more likely to …