education of women. However, establishing a causal link is difficult as both fertility and education have changed secularly. The … contribution of this paper is to study the connection between fertility and education over a woman’s fertile period focusing on … selection into education. Our results indicate that increasing education leads to postponement of first births away from teenage …

of a largescale cohort studyof children living in the Netherlands at the beginning of the new millennium. TheNetherlands … of parents and children. For both ordinary least square estimates as well as the sensitivity analyses the results do not …

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 …

largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in … children - they are more effective in producing human capital in their children. -- intergenerational mobility ; education …This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine …

of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates the long-term impacts of early … referrals) recommended for lead-poisoned children. Using linked administrative data from Charlotte, NC, we compare outcomes for … children who are similar across observable characteristics but differ in eligibility for intervention due to blood lead test …

largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in …This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine … children who lost one parent during childhood, we find a series of striking patterns which show that the relationship is …