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Socioeconomic gaps in child development open up early, with associated disparities in parental investments in children. Understanding the drivers of these disparities is key to designing [...]

The pandemic may represent the tip of a mental health iceberg – an iceberg we have ignored for far too long. This study examines child, adolescent and caregiver mental health. [UNICEF, October [...]

One in five full-time workers cares for a family member with a serious illness or disability. Nearly 20 percent of them had to quit a job to care for a relative and 40 percent had to go to [...]

Kids from higher-income and better educated families spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others, but they also tend to receive higher quality care compared to children [...]

This survey is the first with geographic scope and a comprehensive approach that includes a wide range of family-friendly policies.  

The scientific evidence shows why investments in social infrastructure policies are an investment in the future—not just in the long run with respect to child outcomes, but in the short run with [...]

This paper considers the liberal case for explicitly ‘pronatalist’ policies to increase the birth rate in the UK. Should the UK join 28% of countries that have adopted explicitly pronatalist [...]

The collapse of the old working week creates winners and losers. One of the big gaps in the post-pandemic world is between those who can work around life and those who need to fit their lives [...]

Early child development has been influenced directly and indirectly by the COVID- 19 pandemic, and these effects are exacerbated in contexts of poverty. [Helen O. Pitchik et al – Child [...]

The unprecedented circumstances brought by the pandemic have created a strong focus on flexible working and wellbeing in workplaces across the UK and sparked local and national debates on the [...]