parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …

, 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 …

students, and children from higher socio-economic backgrounds. The results suggest that random disturbances during high … Israeli high school students who took a series of high stakes matriculation exams between 2000 and 2002. As a source of random …

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 …

suggest that increased school resources and students' spending more time at school and on key tasks all lead to increased … strategies. The evidence also shows that a longer school week increases the time that students spend on homework without reducing …

Italian NGO, in a poor neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, targets parents of children from birth to age 5. It provides family …Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … same time: empowering mothers through tools that also advance their children's development. A program operated by AVSI, an …