between children of rich and poor parents remain as high in Nordic countries as elsewhere in Europe. One explanation for this … investments in children contribute to a levelled playing field and promote social mobility. However, gaps in learning outcomes … paradox is that the equalizing impacts of public investments are undone by parental investments in children of rich and poor …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … ; education ; fertility ; children ; instrumental variables ; compulsory schooling laws …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

satisfaction in the destination country. Aggregated measures of subjective well-being are, therefore, useful for international …

and compare the cost of children in Europe by analysing the effect of child births on parents’ self-reported ability to … in all regions, yet with economies of scale in the number of children. The drop is mainly caused by increased expenses … costs of children are not compensated for. …

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

In recent years, the idea that public policy should maximize satisfaction, happiness or some other non-material measure … subjective life satisfaction (SLS) in the European Union using data from the most recent, 2008/2009, wave of the European Values … incomes can go a long way in improving citizens' life satisfaction …

limited themselves to measures of national GDP and mean life satisfaction. We develop this line of research by embedding the … analysis into the context of 289 NUTS regions in Europe and replacing the simple life satisfaction measure with measures of …