achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from birth to adolescence. Results indicate …

becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …-career effect on fertility. Coupled with higher labor-supply and wage returns for non-mothers as compared to mothers the timing …

care, our analysis indicates that such differences are largely absent among the generation raising children today. Center … to 3 year old children. For 5-10 year old children, we find that children with some exposure to early formal care improve …

Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in … children's non-cognitive outcomes and parental well-being. To capture heterogeneous effects on different dimensions of children … panel data set, we analyze age-specific effects for families with children below the age of 11. Our preliminary results …

negative effects on the quantity of care. The results show that family day care is beneficial for children's development. …

While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of …. We find no evidence that starting child care earlier affects children's outcomes in the short- or medium-run. Our precise …

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