, 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 …

We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid … 30. The effect is especially large for children of those mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of …

We study the impact on children of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year by … months and family income was unaffected. The increased time with the child led to a 2.7 percentage points decline in high … for children of mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of unpaid leave …

less time at home, or by reduced income. The children of both groups of mothers experience drops in school grades, so both …Using rich administrative data from Norway, we evaluate a 1998 work-encouraging reform targeted at single parents. We … especially focus on educational performance for children of the involved single mothers. For all children of single mothers, the …