Using time-use data from a longitudinal survey (covering Ethiopia, India and Vietnam), the present study examines how … the amount of time children spend on different activities impacts their acquisition of cognitive and non-cognitive skills …. Modeling the skill formation production function of children and extending the set of inputs to include the child’s own time …

wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited amounts of work by mothers … time these children spend in enriching home environments. Some of the growth in obesity may be related to determinants of …