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 …, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic …

We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid … with the child led to a 2.7 percentage points decline in high school dropout and a 5% increase in wages at age 30. For … 30. The effect is especially large for children of those mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of …