capital, consistently with the idea that educational reforms favour the human capital acquisition of abler children from …

We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom …-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely … to complete academic high school and enroll in university. Two mechanisms drive these results. Treated children show …

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 …

Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in … obesity in children and adults. This paper analyzes the effect of mother's labor supply in childhood on young adults … importance of childhood environment on children's later life outcome and the importance of behavioral changes in explaining the …

both because children from poor backgrounds started to marry up, and because those from wealthy backgrounds became more …

Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled … educated and skilled males tend to have more children than their less skilled peers once we use twin/sibling fixed effects to … skills and traits when children are small as well as the choices, in terms of family formation and human capital investments …