There is massive cross-sectional evidence that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates on tests …: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. In line with most of the literature, we find no effect of mothers' education … on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother's education …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

academic performance of college students. As expected, the intervention increases physical activity. The main result is that it … generates a strong and significant improvement in academic performance, particularly for students who struggled at the baseline … in terms of lifestyle habits. We also provide evidence on the underlying mechanisms: Students who were incentivized to …

While a growing literature documents the short-term effects of public programs providing children with nutritious food … children with nutritious food and replaced a hot school meal at the end of the day with similar caloric value but less …

This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian … after having children. The simple conditional correlation between children and earnings is positive. When only variation …

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

to patients' SES measured by education, income or ethnicity. Our data allow us to Control or a wide set of patient and GP … education and African or Asian ethnicity receive more medical tests but shorter consultations, whereas patients with low income …

This paper addresses whether children's exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability …-age population rely on disability benefits, we find that the amount of time that children are exposed to their fathers receiving …