childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low-income … light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare … and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal …

This paper uses propensity score matching methods to investigate the relationship between breastfeeding and children … and noncognitive development is weaker, and is restricted to children of less educated mothers. We conclude that … interventions which increase breastfeeding rates would improve not only children's health, but also their cognitive skills, and …

the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …

This paper has a twofold purpose. It argues firstly, that analysis of income distribution should be a part of the … capability approach. Secondly, it argues that the capability approach is a good theoretical foundation for analysis of income … distribution. The capability approach to human advantage has not hitherto been applied in mainstream analysis of income and wealth …

income is full income a..l defined by Gary Becker, while time spent caring for children at home is unpaid work. Equivalent … full income for a household with pre-school children is defined. It is also shown that, as long as the wage rate is higher …When defining and estimating the cost of children and equivalent incomes, children's consumption is normally defined as …

microcredit, plays a role in children’s food security, measured by anthropometric nutritional Z-scores. Access to microcredit is …

children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies …