connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … skills. The data also permit novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parental cognitive skills due to school and peer … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields …

a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target … child effect size. The effects are particularly pronounced in families where one of the children is disabled, for boys, and …

Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … children’s skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children’s skills …

their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on fragile families’ time use with their children. Courses …, we find attending the course increased families’ awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, the …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … states, we show that the reform slightly increased stress-related health problems among school children. While increasing …

Studies have shown that a lack of adult supervision of school-aged children is associated with antisocial behavior and … to fees paid by parents. In the past decade, the quality and content of these programs and the role they can play in … integrating children have been under scrutiny. In 2016/17, the city of Oslo gradually introduced and expanded an offer of free …