for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market … negligible benefits from a leave extending beyond six months in terms of health out-comes and children's long-run outcomes …

This paper evaluates how a light-touch parenting program for parents of children below school entry age affects … maternal well-being. We first analyze data from a randomized controlled trial focusing on more advantaged parents. Second, we …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

on children's wellbeing, and parents' market and household work, we estimate how the reallocation of intra … household work. A the same time school closures in many countries impacted on children's lives and their learning process. In …-household responsibilities during the lock-down has affected children's use of time, their emotional status and their home learning. We find that …

. The experiment provided parents of preschool students with text messages to support their children's learning at home …. After 15 weeks of intervention, the cognitive skills of children whose parents received the text messages rose 0 …

In this study, we consider the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on family formation and dissolution. We use national …. Overall, our findings suggest that marital dissolutions quickly recovered (6 months into the pandemic), but family formation …

family planning by utilizing a natural experiment in the German Democratic Republic during the period of German division. I … relationships and family life, particularly among women. …

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

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