relying on forecasts. Adult outcomes on the participants' children and siblings allow us to quantify spillover benefits. The …

Children from disadvantaged families have lower levels of school readiness when they enter school than do children from … implemented more recently in the US, find that the programs do improve outcomes for young children, particularly for those from …

-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains …

Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using … a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target …

higher education institution. Measures to better balance family and work lives can improve career options for women and … therefore reduce the current tensions between having children and full time labour market participation of younger women. This …