employment and fertility among women, as well as long-run cognitive outcomes among children. A structural life-cycle model of … outcomes of children, via estimating a cognitive ability production function that corrects for the endogeneity of inputs. We …-education women. This leads to lower reading scores among children, primarily as a result of mothers shifting away from formal care …

in the treatment group five years of high-quality child care along with case management. As a result, treated children … variation to estimate the impact of center care on children's language and social skills as well as health. I uncover mixed … both effects fade-out for most children within one to two years. I also find that early center care use is strongly …

The economic and psychological literatures have demonstrated that early investments (private and public) in children … countries, implying that mothers spend less time with their children and that families rely more on external sources of …