"Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children … is thought to be critical to the development of "quality" children who will become productive adults. This paper has … three goals related to the examination of parental time allocated to the care of their children. First, using data from the …

effect of family size on children's education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …-quality tradeoff of children in developing countries. -- Quantity-quality tradeoff ; twins ; China …

developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation … providers. -- Obesity ; human capital ; children ; child development ; Germany ; gender …

Children who grow up in more highly educated families have better labor market outcomes as adults than those who grow … children. This paper attempts to improve our understanding of the causal processes that contribute to intergenerational … schooling levels have an affect on children's outcomes that is independent of their innate ability and suggests that public …

well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, an epidemiological cohort …