these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic …

influence on the private provision of primary education was limited by a national voucher system. The comparison of preschools …

This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three … polarisation. Based on estimated regression models, we conclude that increased returns to parental education have forcefully … contributed to larger economic polarisation among children in Swedish metropolitan regions. …

shocks to the primary household earner should have more negative consequences for child education – it is especially maternal … health that makes a difference as far as child schooling is concerned. Children whose mothers self-reported having poor … health are about 7 percentage points less likely to be enrolled in education at ages 15-24. These results are robust to …

immigration. This paper examines the education outcomes of a cohort of immigrants who arrived in Canada as children. The 2006 … likely that children who migrate face different challenges in attaining high school credentials depending upon their age at … Census is used and it is found that there is in fact a distinct change in the chances that children will hold a high …

Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany’s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that …

Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a …