writing and math and logical reasoning. The amount of time mothers spend with children is always greater than fathers but … changes over the life cycle of the children. In fact, the time mothers spend with children decreases as the child grows up and … is greater with daughters, while the reverse is true of fathers. The estimates show that the impact of mothers’ and …

Our study explores the impact of selection criteria on the costs and benefits of early childcare for mothers … municipalities in assigning childcare slots. In Italy, only around 13% of the demand for public childcare coverage is met, and the … Italian sample of households with children under 3 years of age (European Survey on Living and Income Conditions), and the …

This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … childcare availability has positive and significant effects on both mothers' working status and children's language test scores …. The effects are stronger when the degree of rationing is high and for low educated mothers and children living in lower …

A rich strand of the economic literature has been studying the impact of different forms of early childcare on children … agrees in identifying stronger beneficial effects among children from disadvantaged backgrounds, making a case for the role … cognitive and non-cognitive development of young children and how to reduce gender gaps later in life. Our paper offers a …

child cognitive outcomes, allowing the effect of formal childcare to be different for children from different family … step, we simulate how an increase in formal childcare attendance can affect inequalities across children. Our results show … that childcare attendance has a positive impact on child cognitive outcomes, which are stronger for children from low socio …

focus is on child care for children aged 0-3, because this is a critical period for working mothers and their children and …This paper discusses several approaches to examining the relationship between child care and mothers' labor supply. The … because most European and American households with children aged 3-5 already use child care centers. The paper provides data …