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 … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …

prosperous parents multicultural integration in public education decreases their children's human capital levels. The analysis …This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education - its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private …

) studies, we find that the significantly positive impact of family status on children's health outcomes disappears if we …

probability of being in school for secondary school children was about 6 percent higher in 2002 than in 1998. These estimates … account for the fact that a new Federal Education Law (FEL) in 1996 extended mandatory education to 10 years. Differences … children in provinces fully implementing the FEL were 3 percent more likely to be in school and 1.6 percent points less likely …

levels in Latin America. Low levels of education continue to be singled out as the main obstacle to higher productivity in … the region. We examine the scope for education to lift labor incomes above poverty levels in Latin America and find that … in many countries education, by itself, has a positive, but limited, potential to increase wages above a minimum level …

This paper estimates the effect of a major education reform on the intergenerational income mobility in Finland. The …-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We …