commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited … different functions among different groups. The poor and less educated are much more likely to rear children in cohabitating … relationships. The college educated typically cohabit before marriage, but they marry before conceiving children and their marriages …

Theory and evidence point towards particularly positive effects of high-quality child care for disadvantaged children … between children from different socioeconomic backgrounds, governments are pushing for universal child care. However, it is … unclear how effective programs with universal participation may be at addressing the needs of disadvantaged children. We …

employment and fertility among women, as well as long-run cognitive outcomes among children. A structural life-cycle model of … outcomes of children, via estimating a cognitive ability production function that corrects for the endogeneity of inputs. We …-education women. This leads to lower reading scores among children, primarily as a result of mothers shifting away from formal care …

indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found … with regard to mothers ́mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …

condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found with regard to mothers' mental health. Overall …, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal care interact with them more frequently. …

This study investigates whether the expansion of day-care places for under-three-year-old children in East and West …