In this paper, we study the effects of extra-school activities on children's non-cognitive development, using data from … the Millennium Cohort Study (UK) and focusing on children aged 7-11 years old. We classify the time spent out of school … data. Results show the beneficial effects on children's behaviour of sports, school-related activities, time with parents …

This paper studies the interaction between parental and public inputs in children's skill formation. We perform a … significantly for children of all backgrounds. There is, however, complete fade-out for children with highly educated parents. Given … positive longrun effects for children with low-educated parents, the treatment reduces child skill gaps across parents …

children's cognitive outcomes. My identification strategy exploits geographical differences in terms of exposure to the program … children. In turn, the effect is only significant for mother with negative effect on the interaction between mother and … children, which means that there is a substitution effect, mother use this time to do something else. These findings call for …