school-going children. When children attend school, the potential time working mothers miss out with their children, is … smaller than when children do not yet attend school. At the same time, working might benefit children through, for example …, greater family income. Our study is highly relevant for public policy as in most countries maternal employment rates rise when …

This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential … from parents to their children, there are large discrepancies with respect to the age group and the type of skill. The … personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental …

children's reports of family or home characteristics rather than information provided by their parents. There is a well … socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on …'s occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their …

acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by parents may respond to children's non … for differences between their children, investing more in a child who exhibits greater non-cognitive deficits, while less … associated with the narrowing of non-cognitive deficits over time for children of more educated mothers, while there is no …

. The effects are prevalent primarily among children to high-income mothers. Impacts are driven by a combination of a …How do parental resources early in life affect children's health and schooling outcomes? We address this question by … persistent positive income shock, and substitution away from informal care to maternal time …

sessions plus two sessions of guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading … socio-emotional development of children of families participating in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0.43 and 0 ….54 standard deviation, respectively) relative to children of nonparticipating families. The treatments also led to improvements in …

The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the … development index reduces long-term maternal weekly hours worked by 9 hours and weekly income by 215 Australian Dollars. We …