welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany. …-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants’ economic self-sufficiency and family …

-time mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. I analysis the impact of the intervention on maternal … the participating mothers until the third birthday of the child give a rich data source to evaluate these outcomes. I find …

Nearly a quarter of all children under the age of two in China are left behind in the countryside as parents migrate to … urban areas for work. We use a longitudinal survey following young children and their caregivers from 6 to 30 months of age …

welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany …-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants' economic self-sufficiency and family …

mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. At the end of the first year of the program, children …

support the skill development of children and thus its labor force’s skills of tomorrow. This thesis aims to provide knowledge …

The early development of non-cognitive skills has longlasting benefits for children's sub- sequent educational … attainment and wages. Drawing on a rich, nationally representative longitudinal sample of young children in Ireland, we present … by school entry. We focus on the type of non-parental childcare used by mothers who are working when their child is nine …

for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market …Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century. The main motivation … gender equality. Proponents of extending parental leave rights for mothers in terms of duration, benefits, and job protection …

development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …, which targeted families with 0-5-year-old children only, benefited significantly from the program, whereas 0-5 year-olds in …