Early childhood is a key life stage and early childhood experiences are crucial not only for children's well-being, but … children start school, and a large body of international research highlights that investing in high-quality early childhood … education and care (ECEC) can benefit children's cognitive and non-cognitive development. Affordable childcare has an important …

market outcomes of the children whose parents were affected by them, perhaps because benefits are hard to measure or confined … adults, particularly for disadvantaged children; however the gains may be less pronounced when high quality subsidized child …

- significant differences in the educational and labor market outcomes across children of varying birth orders. Taking advantage of … a rich set of information on in utero and early childhood conditions in the Children of the NLSY79, we find that, within …

Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in … obesity in children and adults. This paper analyzes the effect of mother's labor supply in childhood on young adults … importance of childhood environment on children's later life outcome and the importance of behavioral changes in explaining the …

receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … care subsidies on children's weight outcomes. Our instrumental variables estimates suggest that subsidized child care leads … to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children. …

these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic …

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 …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children's age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …