childhood on education and employment in adulthood. Our identification hinges on the unexpected extension of DDT spraying even … associated with less education and worse employment in adulthood. However, the dose-response curves are non-linear …

grade levels by linking day care registers and educational registers. We use entire birth cohorts of ethnic Danish children …

This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education … market outcomes of the children whose parents were affected by them, perhaps because benefits are hard to measure or confined … potential benefits. By contrast, expansions of early education generally yield benefits at school entry, adolescence, and for …

direct effect. This is true for the full sample of children, for boys and girls and for children in households whose mother … has a low and high level of education …

Are there skill differentials in young children's competence levels by their self-regulation abilities and do such … primary school. We use data from the kindergarten cohort of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) which provides … background variables.Our results imply a positive association between children's self-regulation and their mathematical …

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 …

only for children around the median of the attendance rate baseline distribution (between deciles 4 and 6). The … intervention was ineffective for children with very high or very low pre-treatment absenteeism levels. Our results, although … encouraging, emphasize the limits of these types of interventions, especially for children in families where barriers to reduce …

" – significant differences in the educational and labor market outcomes across children of varying birth orders. Taking advantage of … a rich set of information on in utero and early childhood conditions in the Children of the NLSY79, we find that, within …

maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6 …, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with …