, 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 …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children’s outcomes such as education, IQ scores …

two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies — augmented with a …