, they can affect parents' time allocation and family dynamics. This paper examines how extending the school day affects … families by focusing on marriage dissolution. We exploit the staggered adoption of a policy that extended the availability of … childcare is likely to be one of the mechanisms that relaxed restrictions to marriage dissolution. …

We investigate the impact of a compulsory schooling reform on marriage market matching using a regression discontinuity … design. Our results imply that the formally gender-neutral educational reform has asymmetric impacts for men and women, owing … to the pervasive marital age gap and the birthdate discontinuity. We show that treated women decrease the marital age gap …

Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school … administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks …, on achievement. Identification comes from siblings observed in the same year. I find that family shocks are at least as …

correlation of permanent earnings into family and community effects allowing for life-cycle dynamics; finding that family is the …

individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …

Human capital investments at an early age appear crucial for individual outcomes. Family size might affect these … limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy - even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children … family size. In contrast with the results from other developed countries, we find a significant negative effect of family …