More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care … entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000 children in one West German state, we use a marginal treatment effects … framework to show how causal effects vary with observed characteristics of children, parents, and care centers and with …

Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in … educational attainments and earnings for children in the cohorts born 1954–1974, using a differ-ence-in-differences strategy …

We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children’s test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …

diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of … female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been … achievement we find that students with children seem to be somewhat more efficient in their studies among those who have graduated …

Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …