in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …

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 …

individuals face wage uncertainty. Though optimal labor distortions are history-dependent, i.e. depend on income and education …, simple policy instruments can yield the desired distortions: a single nonlinear labor income tax schedule combinedwith income … in income for this range. This result holds along the Pareto frontier. We compare the second best to a situation where …

and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion …

to CS increased children's educational attainment by 0.015 (0.016) years - larger than the average effects on the parents … parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll … attainment of exposed individuals, but also that of their children. We find that one extra year of maternal (paternal) exposure …

disparities in income, employment, homeownership, education, access to credit, and retirement savings - all factors that …