school calendar and have implications for policies targeted toward women's and teenage children's health and well-being. …. Using regression discontinuity (RDD) methods, combined with dates on school year start and end dates by locality, we … document several notable results. First, mothers are substantially more affected by the school year than are fathers. When …

about the role of birth order on delinquency outcomes such as disciplinary problems in school, juvenile delinquency, and … environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … are on the order of 20 to 40 percent more likely to be disciplined in school and enter the criminal justice system …

use by academic researchers before and after the pandemic, we analyze the extent to which greater access to either school … find that access to public schools offset the research time loss to a greater extent among mothers of young children …

with children allocate more of their time savings to caregiving. …

explain not only the spread of the disease, but also cross-country spillovers in perceptions about coronavirus risk and in … social distancing behavior. In the early phases of the pandemic, perceptions of coronavirus risk in most countries are …

pandemic were a negative supply shock, and the residual structural factors were a positive demand shock. The resulting excess …

discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from one district in Florida, we find positive spillover …

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children … under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long …