emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … sensitive children from detailed Danish register data: children with divorced parents, children with parents convicted of crime …, and children with a psychiatric diagnosis. We find that adding potentially disruptive children lowers the academic …

In this paper we study effects of mass layoffs on parents and their children in the aftermath of the Great Recession … children; neither academic achievement, absenteeism nor well-being are affected. We even find some positive effects for the … children of parents who were more adversely affected by the layoff, consistent with an increase in parental time investment …

Children of teenage mothers fare worse than children of older mothers. In order to estimate a causal effect of teenage …