quality and no impact on child development nor on children's health status. Our results point to the importance of workload …

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 …

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 …

This paper examines the family income-college enrollment relationship and the evidence on credit constraints in post … ability. Long-run factors crystallized in ability are the major determinants of the family income-schooling relationship …

the return to schooling. Some marginal policy changes inducing students into college produce very low returns. -- returns …