and the development of their children over the past two decades in Australia. Using nationally representative longitudinal … motherhood on child skill development, following children who entered primary school when their mothers were affected by the …

analyze the introduction of universal child care in Norway, addressing the impact on children's long-run outcomes. Our precise … and robust difference-in-difference estimates show that child care had strong positive effects on children's educational … attainment and labor market participation, and also reduced welfare dependency. Subsample analysis indicates that children with …

"price" of a social program for a subset of individuals. Fathers of children born after April 1, 1993 in Norway were eligible … overcome these identification issues in the context of paid paternity leave in Norway using a regression discontinuity design … for one month of governmental paid paternity leave, while fathers of children born before this cutoff were not. There is a …

the children born to a couple are random variables with probability distributions conditional on unobservable parental … external benefits of their actions. -- Stochastic quantity and quality of children ; moral hazard ; population externalities …

"There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical … targeting children through two general policies, namely selective commodity taxation and cash transfer to family with children …

likely to put much weight on expenditures on the man's children from his previous union. Thus, his own and his partner …

The German Child Benefit ("Kindergeld") is paid to legal guardians of children as a cash benefit. This study employs … changes have translated into an improvement in the circumstances of children related to their well-being. I use the German … drinking, but parents of older children use the child benefit to pay for their social and personal entertainment activities …

In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of …

This paper assesses the short-run impact of first-year maternal employment on low-income children's cognitive … Birth cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, the OLS results show that children of working mothers score higher … less likely to breast-feed and read to their children. In addition, such children are exposed to non-parental child care …