the actual impact of pandemic-related closures on child development, in this case for a sample of young children in Chile … disruptions early in life can be long-lasting. Although there is evidence about the effects of school closures on older children …, there is currently no evidence on such losses for children in their early years. This paper is among the first to quantify …

child by age 2. By exploiting a longitudinal dataset of children and their parents, we find that children who were exposed …, exposed children had a lower level of development, cognition skills, and more attention problems relative to children not … trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and …

. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior … is malleable. In a control condition, about 50% of children prefer two rewards the next day over one reward immediately … successfully in promoting delay of gratification. We also find that patience increases with age and that more patient children have …

investments by college and non-college educated parents and their children widened up precisely during this first period …

Socio- Economic Survey (HSES) to examine the correlation between the presence of children of different age categories in a … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …

The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …