daycare vacancy rates, we estimate the causal effects of enrollment age in universal daycare on child development for children … younger than two years. We find modest effects of postponing daycare enrollment on early childhood outcomes. Children who … enroll later have fewer visits to their primary care physician in their first years of daycare, but the effects vanish before …

The economic and psychological literatures have demonstrated that early investments (private and public) in children … countries, implying that mothers spend less time with their children and that families rely more on external sources of …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied …

development, but it is still not clear whether parents respond to changes across time in their child's skills and health. Using … the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we measure parental investments by considering the time parents spend with … in her physical health, and are neutral to variation in her cognitive skills. …

and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive, socio-emotional and health domains, and we show that this contributes …

development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means …-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings … study the reform effects on children's language skills, motor skills, socio-emotional stability, and school readiness using …

age on offspring human capital in terms of health and cognition. The analysis relies on mother fixed effects to allow for …. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect … on health weakens over time, while the cognition effect surges in early adolescence. Further analysis suggests both …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied …

While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of … no evidence that starting child care earlier affects children's outcomes in the short- or medium-run. Our precise …