, 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 …

between children of rich and poor parents remain as high in Nordic countries as elsewhere in Europe. One explanation for this … investments in children contribute to a levelled playing field and promote social mobility. However, gaps in learning outcomes … paradox is that the equalizing impacts of public investments are undone by parental investments in children of rich and poor …

sessions plus two sessions of guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading … the socio-emotional development of children of families participating in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0 ….43 and 0.54 standard deviation, respectively) relative to children of nonparticipating families. The treatments also led to …

State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the …

This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use … panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National … partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is …