stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … Netherlands, where children start school (kindergarten) for approximately 20 hours a week in the month that they turn 4. Using … child starts going to school. For their partners, who experience a much smaller shock in terms of time, the increase in …

This paper studies the extent to which sleep duration causally affects health, cognitive and noncognitive development … over 16 years, we first document that children sleep significantly less on days with longer daylight duration, partly by … going to sleep later and waking up earlier. We then exploit variations in local daily daylight duration measured on …

This study explores the allocation of time, particularly to sleep, among children and adolescents in response to daily … employing an individual fixed effects estimator, we uncover a significant correlation between daylight duration and sleep … patterns. Our findings reveal that days with longer daylight hours are associated with a decrease in total sleep duration …