quantile treatment effects, showing how the child care expansion affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as … suggest that the effects of child care vary systematically across the earnings distribution, that the mean impact misses a lot … middle and upper-class children are unlikely to exceed the costs. To help understand the differential effects on earnings, we …

inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male … Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial rise in earnings inequality over the 1980s and into the early 1990s, is … to some extent driven by the fact that the large baby boom cohorts are approaching the peak of the age-earnings profile …