In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children … under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long …

welfare. Particularly, the increasing effect on women's welfare resulting from decreases in household gender wage differences … is much higher than for the household welfare. The findings showcase the need to vigorously adopt policies that both …Using household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning …