How much young children should be tested and graded is a highly contentious issue in education policy. Opponents … redeeming impact on educational performance. Others see early testing of children as a necessary instrument for identifying … children. In practice, there is large crosscountry variation in testing regimes. We exploit random variation in test-taking in …

overall life satisfaction. Partnership formation, the school-to-work transition, and parenting younger children are all … older children start to set in, and life satisfaction begins to decline …

(SES) can also improve the well-being of their children. This chapter identifies several channels for this effect, drawing … maternal well-being can affect not only a woman's own children, but future generations as well. Finally, the chapter highlights …

We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for … individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that …

gender gaps in the labor market, support marital stability and promote children's well-being. In this paper, I show that … children's verbal development …

from non-economic factors as well. In the present paper we focus on the eventual impact on SWB from having children. The … following birth of a child. We focus on the impact from having children using two very big panel data sets.The first is the … market background variables to be included in the econometric analyses of the SWB impact from children. The second data set …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes …