Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children’s age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …

child care provision. The earnings forgone over a lifetime by a woman bearing children (compared with the earnings of her … there is also more out-of-home provision for children of and below school age. The effect on mothers' lifetime earnings of …

The opportunity costs of rearing British children, in terms of cash earnings forgone by their mother, are estimated for … representative women with different numbers of children. These are then combined with the earnings function to simulate lifetime … income. The simulations indicate that the earnings forgone as a result of bearing and rearing two children can be decomposed …

parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support … welfare reforms might have on divorced parents and their children. Such adverse effects may arise because an increase in the …

Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labour economists as a major determinant of educational … final section of the paper, we contrast expected returns to education with actual returns estimated from country …-specific microdata. In line with US studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …

show that there are private increasing returns to education at the labour market participation margin. We show that these … depend directly on the elasticity of labour supply with respect to wages. Thus the increasing returns to education problem …