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Birth Order and Child Outcomes : Does Maternal Quality Time Matter?
Monfardini, Chiara - 2012
Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are due to unequal allocation of the particular resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099745
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Stylized facts about the quantity and quality of parental time investments on the skill formation of their children
Torres, Javier; Agüero, Jorge M. - 2017
This paper uses seven nationally representative time use surveys in Latin America to identify key stylized facts regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of household behavior have failed to account for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661860
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Allocation of Parental Time and the Long-Term Effect on Children's Education
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2010
full-time employed parents. Both parents' time spent on childcare is explicitly taken into account as well as childcare … bought in the market. It is shown that the quality of market-provided childcare vs. the quality of parental childcare is … crucial for parents' time use decisions but availability of paternal childcare does not directly affect the mother's childcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199389
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Education Gradients in Parental Time Investment and Subjective Well-being
Kalil, Ariel; Mayer, Susan E.; Delgado, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their … childcare more. We find that among all mothers, spending time in childcare is associated with higher positive feelings compared … negative feelings during intensive childcare than other mothers. Moreover, college-educated mothers report substantially fewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372469
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Birth Order and Child Outcomes : Does Maternal Quality Time Matter?
Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2012
Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are due to unequal allocation of the particular resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165950
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Center-based care and parenting activities
Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina; Waights, Sevrin - 2021
We examine the relationship between parenting activities and center-based care using time diary and survey data for mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we find that differences in the time spent on specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798269
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Status Externalities in Education and Low Birth Rates in Korea
Kim, Seongeun; Tertilt, Michèle; Yum, Minchul - 2021
East Asians, especially South Koreans, appear to be preoccupied with their offspring's education---most children spend time in expensive private institutes and in cram schools in the evenings and on weekends. At the same time, South Korea currently has the lowest total fertility rate in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223236
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Home with mom : the effects of stay-at-home parents on children's long-run educational outcomes
Bettinger, Eric; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rege, Mari - 2013
In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752998
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Childcare choices and child development : generous parental leave and affordable, high-quality childcare can foster childrens's abilities
Del Boca, Daniela - 2015
childcare. This trend has raised concerns, and an intense debate in several countries has focused on the effectiveness of … childcare policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430563
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Early child care and child outcomes : the role of grandparents
Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, … - 2014
In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419071