This synthesis paper is motivated by a concern about the effects of the current financial crisis on children and their … associates negative growth with worse human development outcomes, particularly for children. A key reason for concern is that, if … children are adversely affected by shocks, this often has lifelong and potentially inter-generational consequences. Inadequate …

The importance parents give to time spent with their children for their future behavioural and cognitive development … deeply affected the patterns of time allocation of both working and non-working parents in all developed countries in the …

In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise … employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children … non-working parents in all developed countries. We compare the two waves of the Italian Time Use dataset (1988 and 2002 …