time mothers spend with their children. Since the institutional context is one in which the alternative is subsidized day …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 …

complete their training in this firm. Because apprentices will be at different stages in their apprenticeship at that time, the … failure of a firm will manipulate the length of the apprenticeship period completed for some apprentices. The time to the firm …

This paper investigates the effects of short-run economic shocks on children`s progress through school in urban Brazil …. Of children ages 10-15 who are enrolled in school, only 69 percent advance on average to the next grade. This paper … investigates whether children`s effort on schoolwork is diminished when parents experience a transitory shock to income. …

consumption growth between 1983 and 2004 in the United States. I find that the portfolio choice of households that have less than … probability of labor income loss at the same time. Such disaster expectations however, are not revealed in the portfolios of …

favorable labor market outcomes, may at the same time increase a child's income aspirations and thereby reduce financial … of parental income, and that children appear to compare their actual income situation with the aspiration level acquired …

efficiently between physical bequests and educational investments, while poor parents only afford investments in children's human … capital. Therefore, educational equality between rich and poor children is not necessarily promoted by further investments in …-over effects on their children. Tax policy may also be used to influence human-capital accumulation, and I show that tax policy may …

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

In this paper, we provide evidence of whether child spacing affects the future success of children. As an exogenous …-born mothers, the reform also caused a decrease in educational attainment. Thus, this suggests that the effect of spacing children … closer has a negative impact on children's future outcomes. We provide additional evidence that this is likely due to the …

insensitive to adjustments for employment selection, as well as time and age effects that vary by race and state-of-residence. The …