, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … 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 …

the Graduate PLUS loan program. Access to additional federal loans increased graduate students' borrowing and shifted the … in constrained students' persistence or degree receipt. We document that among programs in which a larger share of … graduate students had exhausted their annual federal loan eligibility before the policy change--and thus were more exposed to …

not by parents, most of whom were already working. Beneficiary children saw sustained gains in height-for-age and weight …This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their … used a lottery to assign children to limited public daycare openings. Winning the lottery translated to a 34 percent …