sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime … emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate …, and children with a psychiatric diagnosis. We find that adding potentially disruptive children lowers the academic …

In this paper we study effects of mass layoffs on parents and their children in the aftermath of the Great Recession … children of parents who were more adversely affected by the layoff, consistent with an increase in parental time investment … Danish firms in 2008-2019. We document that parents exposed to a mass layoff during and immediately after the Great Recession …