sample of more than 500 parents with pre-school aged children. Our findings show that our tool is reliable and delivers high …

This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational …

We investigate the time investment in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities by parents with different …

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score …

formation of children. To this end, we exploit a nationwide reform that mandated Swedish municipalities to offer childcare … access for infants' older siblings, while parents were on parental leave to care for their infants. Survey data on childcare … effects on the children's 6th grade test scores, but we find evidence of positive effects on test scores for sons of less than …

the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we measure parental investments by considering the time parents spend with … development, but it is still not clear whether parents respond to changes across time in their child's skills and health. Using … endogeneity issues, we find that parents reinforce for differences in their child's socio-emotional skills, compensate for changes …