This article explores the impact of grandparents' supervision time input relative to the effect of parents' childcare … provision on children's cognitive, social and behavioral development at an early age. We identify the effects of interest … vocabulary skills of the child. However, parents' time input in the child has a larger impact than does the supervision time …

activities are explained by two factors: (i) that center care replaces time that parents spend with the child but are doing other …

regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … household behavior have failed to account for the differential behavior of parents with respect to skill formation of their … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education …

sample of more than 500 parents with pre-school aged children. Our findings show that our tool is reliable and delivers high …

formation of children. To this end, we exploit a nationwide reform that mandated Swedish municipalities to offer childcare … access for infants' older siblings, while parents were on parental leave to care for their infants. Survey data on childcare … effects on the children's 6th grade test scores, but we find evidence of positive effects on test scores for sons of less than …

We investigate the time investment in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities by parents with different …

activities are explained by two factors: (i) that center care replaces time that parents spend with the child but are doing other …

investments by college and non-college educated parents and their children widened up precisely during this first period … growing gaps in time investments between college and non-college educated parents. Competition for university places in the UK …

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …