allowing the marginal effects on children’s outcomes of an increase in family income to vary across the income distribution …. Our nonlinear IV and fixed-effect estimates show an increasing, concave relationship between family income and children …This paper uses a rich Norwegian dataset to re-examine the causal relationship between family income and child outcomes …

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 …

We study the impact on children of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year by … months and family income was unaffected. The increased time with the child led to a 2.7 percentage points decline in high … for children of mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of unpaid leave. -- adult outcomes ; time …

This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school … administrative data on schooling and birth records from Chile and Norway, we establish that children who receive extra medical care …

less time at home, or by reduced income. The children of both groups of mothers experience drops in school grades, so both …Using rich administrative data from Norway, we evaluate a 1998 work-encouraging reform targeted at single parents. We … especially focus on educational performance for children of the involved single mothers. For all children of single mothers, the …

A growing literature documents the positive long-term effects of policy-induced improvements in early-life health and … nutrition. However, there is still scarce evidence on early-life health programs targeting a large share of the population and … the role of such programs in increasing intergenerational mobility. This paper uses the rollout of mother and child health …

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … 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 …

An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected …