Using large longitudinal survey data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, this paper estimates the effect of maternal time inputs on early child development. We find that maternal time is a quantitatively important determinant of skill formation and that its effect declines with child age. There...

This paper presents the conditions under which a causal interpretation can be given to the association between childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in own consumption and children?s wellbeing, estimation is...

The paper shows that parents' education is an important, but hardly exclusive part of the common family background that generates positive correlation between siblings' educational attainments. Our estimates based on Norwegian twins indicate that an additional year of either mother's or father's...

An economic theory of young people's decision to live apart from parents is presented and used to structure econometric analyses of the processes of leaving the paternal home and returning to it, which employ data from the British Household Panel Survey for the first half of the 1990s. The...

The paper shows that parents? education is an important, but hardly exclusive part of the common family background that generates positive correlation between the educational attainments of siblings from the same family. But the correlation between the educational attainments of parents and...