-cognitive child development outcomes. We identify a strong positive association between mothers’ life satisfaction and their children …. Our findings suggest that mothers’ life satisfaction is beneficial for their children’s development at all ages and that it …

Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the …

-education women. This leads to lower reading scores among children, primarily as a result of mothers shifting away from formal care … employment and fertility among women, as well as long-run cognitive outcomes among children. A structural life-cycle model of …-scale child care reform, which provided generous cash transfers to mothers who did not use formal child care facilities. Combining …

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 …

phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age … and perform poorer in the math test, with stronger effects for (female) offspring born to very young mothers …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …

frequently argued, is harming children. Heretofore, very little empirical research has actually investigated the impact of … Youth 1979 to estimate the relationship between maternal employment and adolescent self-care. Unlike prior research, the … and adolescent self-care. Findings suggest that the adolescents of mothers who work full-time spend an additional 43 …

This paper evaluates how a light-touch parenting program for parents of children below school entry age affects … use a sample of mothers from deprived neighborhoods, for which we generate a control group using additional data. Overall …

children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies … sons ; mothers' behaviour …