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 …

When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … parents who used to spend time taking care of their children, but to decrease for fulltime working parents because of an … Netherlands, where children start school (kindergarten) for approximately 20 hours a week in the month that they turn 4. Using …

employment and fertility among women, as well as long‐run cognitive outcomes among children. A dynamic structural model of … mothers' behavior on long‐run cognitive outcomes of children. The reform leads to lower reading scores among children … alternative child care subsidy, an expanded maternity leave program, and a tax deduction for mothers with children. …

This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their … used a lottery to assign children to limited public daycare openings. Winning the lottery translated to a 34 percent … which time all children were eligible for universal schooling). The rise in labor force participation is driven primarily by …

-educated counterparts in boosting their children's cognitive skills through their child-care time. Moreover, formal child care is found to … children's cognitive outcomes are greater for the children of less educated mothers, but may be negative for the children of …