This book examines the effects of work requirements imposed by welfare reform on low-income women and their families …

birth rates. The analyses investigate the effects for families with under-3 year-old children, with 3-6 year-old children … effects of publicly-subsidised child care on families. The study conducts an ex-post analysis of publicly-subsidised child … care on the following outcomes: female labor force participation, families' financial stability and social involvement and …

children. Using data from a large panel survey of Polish households carried out in 2013 and 2014 (Determinants of Educational … amount of time parents spend with their children reading, playing or teaching them new things. We account for employment … time' devoted to children. We show that these are parental human and cultural capital and their values that are primary …

difference-in-differences approach combined with matching. Based on a large panel dataset on families with children in Germany … children. We exploit the fact that since the mid 2000s an increasing number of employers have become proactive and implemented …

work flexibility on parental time with children. The analysis unambiguously shows that it allows parents to spend about 30 … percent more time with their children. The results can be generalized to Germany as a whole. It can be concluded that temporal …

We study the relationship between a key early intervention policy designed to support families with children up to the … age of four and the rate at which children are taken into social care. The gradual build-up of over 3,600 Sure Start … Children's Centres (SSCC), operated by Local Authorities across England, created large spatial and cohort variation in the …

. The estimated ITT effect shows a decline by 0.24 cases per 1,000 children if a county increases childcare slots above the …