childcare availability leads to mothers worrying more about their children's health. While early childcare expansions offer well … percentage point increase in the availability of childcare decreases mothers' self-assessed health by 0.173 points on a one to … is the transmission of infections from children to mothers. Consistent with this hypothesis, we observe that increased …

trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and … 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 …

We analyze how access to childcare affects the health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that …. Taken together, our results suggest that the immediate health consequences of childcare access for children of unemployed … they first gained access to childcare. Children aged 10 to 11 years who had access to childcare earlier in their childhood …

We analyze how access to childcare affects health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that …-related hospitalization, when these children first get access to childcare. We find no effect on younger children. When children are 10 …-11 years of age, children who did not have access to childcare when parents were unemployed are more likely to take medication …

with regard to mothers ́mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care … concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found …

condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found with regard to mothers' mental health. Overall …, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal care interact with them more frequently. … coverage is particularly pronounced for under 3 year-olds. The present paper is concerned with how mothers' mental and physical …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human … provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care arrangements …