children with lower (observed and unobserved) gains are more likely to select into child care than children with higher gains …. This pattern of reverse selection on gains is driven by unobserved family background characteristics: children from … disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting …

What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year … difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable improvements in children's reading and math skills at age 15, as well as in … grade progression during primary and secondary school. Effects are driven by girls and disadvantaged children …

In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled … enhancing the quality of education. The necessary expenditures are optimally financed by regressive tuition fees and the net …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …

Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … relatively younger children to special needs services. The effect is persistent throughout compulsory schooling, resulting in …

quantile treatment effects, showing how the child care expansion affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as …, and that children of low income parents seem to be the primary beneficiaries of subsidized child care. These findings are … middle and upper-class children are unlikely to exceed the costs. To help understand the differential effects on earnings, we …

generating large temporal and spatial variation in child care coverage for children under the age of three. Our precise and …

Recent analyses of intergenerational mobility show that investments in children pay big dividends. The priority of …