these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic …

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 …

We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …

While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and …

Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

immigration. This paper examines the education outcomes of a cohort of immigrants who arrived in Canada as children. The 2006 … likely that children who migrate face different challenges in attaining high school credentials depending upon their age at … Census is used and it is found that there is in fact a distinct change in the chances that children will hold a high …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that …