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

mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we … activities are explained by two factors: (i) that center care replaces time that parents spend with the child but are doing other …

The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the …

reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …