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A comprehensive review of studies on parents’ work schedules and child development spanning the last three decades shows that parents’ work schedules in evenings, nights and weekends, so called “nonstandard work schedules” or “unsociable work hours”, may have negative consequences for children. When parents work such hours, children tended to have more behavioral problems, poorer cognitive ability (e.g., language, reading and mathematics), and were more likely to be overweight or obese than children in families where parents mostly worked during the daytime hours and week day.

WZB researcher Bram Lancee has accepted an offer for a position as assistant professor of Sociology at Utrecht University. Over the next years, he will focus his research on ethnic inequalities in the labor market. To carry out this research, Bram Lancee has been awarded a 250.000 Euro VENI grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for innovative research that is also policy relevant. Lancee’s project is aimed at better understanding how policy can effectively reduce the gap between immigrants and native residents on the labor market.