In this paper, we study the effects of extra-school activities on children's non-cognitive development, using data from … the Millennium Cohort Study (UK) and focusing on children aged 7-11 years old. We classify the time spent out of school … data. Results show the beneficial effects on children's behaviour of sports, school-related activities, time with parents …

Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive …-B administrators strictly controlled the mechanism by which children were assigned to assessment dates. The OLS results show that … children utilizing non-parental arrangements score higher on tests of mental ability, a finding that holds after accounting for …

. Higher-educated and older parents spend more time with their children. There are significant and positive correlations across …

work flexibility on parental time with children. The analysis unambiguously shows that it allows parents to spend about 30 … percent more time with their children. The results can be generalized to Germany as a whole. It can be concluded that temporal …

domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior … show that the time allocations of women with pre-school children are highly sensitive to changes in wages and the costs of …

factors influencing participation in childcare and factors associated with participating fathers' time spent with children …