Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male …

support the skill development of children and thus its labor force’s skills of tomorrow. This thesis aims to provide knowledge …) der Kinderbetreuung untersucht, zweitens wird die Rolle der Qualität von Kinderbetreuung näher erforscht und drittens …

More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care … entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000 children in one West German state, we use a marginal treatment effects … framework to show how causal effects vary with observed characteristics of children, parents, and care centers and with …

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. …

investments by college and non-college educated parents and their children widened up precisely during this first period …

, especially those of mothers with young children. This trend has triggered an intense debate about its implications for children …'s well-being and long-term educational outcomes. The overall effect of maternal and paternal employment on children …'s cognitive and educational attainment is not obvious: on the one hand, children may benefit from higher levels of family income …