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 …

, education and labor market success. We conclude that there do not appear to be serious harmful health effects of moderate … an overview of this literature, focusing on studies which seek to establish the causal effect of cannabis use on health … cannabis use. Nevertheless, there is evidence of reduced mental well-being for heavy users who are susceptible to mental health …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …

also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the … accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children …’s future income proportionally at all levels of education, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected …