increased over time, for women more so than for men. Also, the educational attainment depends strongly on the educational … attainment of parents. We then decompose the overall trend into a parental background effect, a general expansion effect and a … tertiary education can be explained by the fact that the gap in participation rates between women with lowly educated parents …

regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … gradient, as more educated parents spend more time on skill formation than their less educated counterparts. This pattern is …This paper uses seven nationally representative time use surveys in Latin America to identify key stylized facts …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … and socio-emotional skills. We also find that the program had persistent effects on parental time investments and … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

In present day Germany, one in seven children is raised in a single parent household. We investigate the effect of … single parenthood on children’s educational attainment, measured by the school track at the age 14, using ordered probit … whether the family effect operates through resources – fewer income and parental time available for the child –, or through …

We examine the effect of single motherhood on children’s secondary school track choice using 12-year-old children drawn … correlation between single motherhood and children’s educational attainment. Looking for alternative explanations for this …

status in which women raise their children and the family context in which children are raised. We refer to family context as … the combination of womens marital status and the type of households in which children reside. We combine references to the … change empirically, we focus on women aged 25 to 29 and children aged 7 to 16. For reasons that will be displayed during the …

-emotional development: internalising and externalising skills. More importantly, we can use multiple measures of parents’ skills collected … their children. Additionally, by leveraging the BCS70 data on socio-emotional skills for three generations, we estimate …