, even though displacement episodes early in children's lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children's teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

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 … unpaid leave. -- maternity leave ; children’s outcomes …

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. -- adult outcomes ; time …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … lower quality. Using Norwegian register data, we compare outcomes of children of sisters who have first births at different … for children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that …