impacts on children's development in mathematics, language and executive functioning. Compared to business as usual, the nine …

-in-differences research design compares cohorts of children in treatment localities before and after the Law's introduction to equivalent …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …

benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality … children who attended such programmes no better off academically than those who did not. This paper studies the relationship …

What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year … difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable improvements in children's reading and math skills at age 15, as well as in … grade progression during primary and secondary school. Effects are driven by girls and disadvantaged children. -- universal …

reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …

, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …

children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR …