In England, school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic represented a sudden but relatively long-lasting shock to … partial and voluntary return to school over this period. We find little evidence that children adapted to home learning over …, better-off parents were around 50% more likely to send their children back to school when given the choice. Since better …

measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children … $2,100, between 1993 and 1997. Using a panel of roughly 4,500 children matched to their mothers from National … math and reading test scores by 6% of a standard deviation in the short-run. Test gains are larger for children from …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a monumental blow to the education of English school children. Over the past 18 months …, English school pupils experienced two long periods of nationwide school closures. The first round of universal school closures … lasted 10 weeks (from 23 March to 1 June 2020); some pupils were not able to return to school until the start of September …

In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for twoearnerhouseholds. The … equally weighted in the household utility function; (3)Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are explanatory … for how individualutilities are weighted in the household utility function. (4) The female's preference forhousehold …

results are mixed, showing some impact on household production. Simulations using GMM estimates of a Stone-Geary utility … function defined over time use suggest no effect on household production in either country. Estimation of a household model …

representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs … the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … significantly, disadvantaged American children living in much more challenging circumstances, and the role of public policy not as …