By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a … reform to mothers' education on her child's skills and use mediation analysis to explore the role of parental inputs as … mechanisms. The reform shifted mothers' education from no, to a low level of qualifications. Our results suggest that financial …

-sex marriage. The dichotomization of parental sexuality based on marriage obscures the ability to assess actual harm to children …

This review looks at the current state of research on early childhood education and care (ECEC) from a sociological … stance. We summarize how children's experiences and benefits from participation in ECEC are related to their families …, education, and psychology with a sociological, social stratification perspective, our report focuses on ECEC as a policy …

Our sixth annual report on education spending shows changes over time across different stages of education, as well as …

The last 25 years has seen a transformation in how early years education and childcare is approached in England. The … establishment and subsequent expansions of a "free entitlement" to funded early education and childcare have seen early years …

children and their parents has been made particularly obvious over the last few years. In this report, we analyse how public … spending on early childhood education and care has changed over the last two decades. Overall spending on the early years in …