particular for children from low socio-economic status households, and substitution of infections from primary school ages to low …This paper studies the effects of day care exposure on behavioral disorders and mental and physical health at various … ages during childhood. We draw on a unique set of merged population register data from Sweden over the period 1999 …

no evidence that earlier enrollment harms early child development, except for a temporary health shock. Children who … some positive effects of early enrollment. Children who enter daycare later are more likely to demonstrate inadequate …

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

quality and no impact on child development nor on children's health status. Our results point to the importance of workload … health care services. The program changed the allocation of time for community health workers, asking them to carry out early …

adulthood. The affected children were 12 p.p. more likely not to be in education, employment, or training (NEET) at the age of … difference-in-differences design and comparing the first-affected with the last-unaffected cohorts of children, we find that an … adverse effect for children of low-educated mothers on human capital investments and labor-market attachment in early …

health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of time …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 …

We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using … childhood health and cognitive skills at ages 7 and 10, educational and occupational choice at age 16-20, employment, earnings …

We study the effects of preschool attendance on children's school progression and cognitive skills in Kenya and … Tanzania. Our analysis uses novel data from large-scale household surveys of children's literacy and numeracy skills, which …-primary education, our regressions identify the impacts from within-household differences, controlling for a variety of child …

during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less educated, and more likely to have serious health problems, including … positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …

While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of … no evidence that starting child care earlier affects children's outcomes in the short- or medium-run. Our precise …