children who were exposed longer to the sanctions. The results imply that sanctions have a larger effect on the income of … children than their parents. Therefore, ignoring the effects of sanctions on future generations significantly understates their … on children's education by exploiting the United Nations sanctions imposed on Iran in 2006. Using the variation in the …

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in … secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income. We use sibling fixed effects models and … information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to …

mentoring relationship affects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children’s educational …Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality … schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that …

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children … under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long … not by changes in family income or father's labor force participation. …

This paper presents the results of a randomized study of a home visiting program implemented in Germany for low-income … welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany. …

parents carried over to the entire family, making special groups of children worse off than others? To answer this question …Can moving to an earnings-related parental leave system influence children's wellbeing and are heterogeneous effects on … benefit amount compared to the pre-reform situation. 2-3-year-old children belonging to the reform's winners, however, improve …

This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on fragile families' time use with their children. Courses …, we find attending the course increased families' awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, the …

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …