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 …

Geburtsjahrgängen und die Weiterverfolgung der schulischen Bildungskarrieren für den Großteil der untersuchten Kinder. Die empirischen …

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 …

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 …

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 …