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

the educational attainments of parents and those of their children overstates considerably the causal effect of parents …? education on the education of their children. Our estimates based on Norwegian twin-mothers indicate that an additional year of … either mother?s or father?s education increases their children?s education by about one-tenth of a year. While estimates of …

likely to put much weight on expenditures on the man's children from his previous union. Thus, his own and his partner …

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 …