children who have a sibling in poor health persistently lag behind other children in their cognitive development - but only for …We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the … Australian Children, we employ a Regression Discontinuity Design based on birthday eligibility cut-offs. We find that Australian …

We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed …. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on … parental unemployment. We find that children with unemployed parents are 17% more likely to be hospitalized than other children …

early investments in their children's achievement, and thus that the timing of income does not matter for long-term child …

with universal health care and free education is likely to be protective for children. …We study the consequences of mothers' and fathers' job loss for parents, families, and children. Rich Swedish register … propensity score matching and controlling for pre-displacement outcomes. Our overall conclusion is positive: childhood health …

with universal health care and free education is likely to be protective for children. …We study the consequences of mothers' and fathers' job loss for parents, families, and children. Rich Swedish register … propensity score matching and controlling for pre-displacement outcomes. Our overall conclusion is positive: childhood health …

development, but it is still not clear whether parents respond to changes across time in their child's skills and health. Using … the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we measure parental investments by considering the time parents spend with … in her physical health, and are neutral to variation in her cognitive skills. …