Generous maternity leave, affordable daycare, extensive social safety nets, excellent universal health care, and high … investments in children contribute to a levelled playing field and promote social mobility. However, gaps in learning outcomes … between children of rich and poor parents remain as high in Nordic countries as elsewhere in Europe. One explanation for this …

provide resources that directly or indirectly support their children's educational careers. That is why we applied a … the grandchildren.Using life-history data from the third wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) in … Europe, we linked the educational outcomes of children with the cultural and material resources of their parents and …

health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a children s home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger …In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life … and later health into a-priori unknown groups, we show that some adverse shocks have opposite effects for specific groups. …

share of children lacking important reading skills by socio-economic background. …

This paper examines whether maternity leave policies have a causal effect on women's mental health in old age. We link … data for women aged 50 and above from eight countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to …