labor market outcomes of children. Evaluation of three policy reforms as opposed to a single reform enables us to analyze … the reforms by comparing outcomes of children born shortly before and shortly after a change in maternity leave … support for the hypothesis that an expansion in maternity leave legislation improves children's outcomes. Given the precision …

association between parents' and children's fluency, conditional on parental and family characteristics. We find that language … immigrants, we can follow their children after they have left the parental home. Our results show a sizeable significant …

children with lower (observed and unobserved) gains are more likely to select into child care than children with higher gains …. This pattern of reverse selection on gains is driven by unobserved family background characteristics: children from … disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment …