decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between …

intergenerational transmission of education. We test whether education transmission is higher when children enter kindergarten and … associated with early kindergarten attendance, particularly for immigrants. Time of tracking loses statistical significance when … kindergarten and school entry regimes are held constant. Our results are robust to various alternative specifications. …

indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found … with regard to mothers’ mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …

, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …

children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …

mothers’ labor supply is weak. Suppressing the APE (Parental Allowance for the Education) would cause the female participation …