This book considers how a wide range of policies, including tax/benefit policies, childcare policy, and employment and … current and future labour supply. It covers Canada (in particular the province of Québec), Finland, Sweden and the United …

on mothers and children compared to HCA. Our findings suggest that shifting child care from the home to the market …We study the impacts of a policy designed to reward mothers who stay at home rather than join the labor force when … their children are under age three. We use regional and over time variation to show that the Finnish Home Care Allowance …

Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which … displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find … controlling for parental education; (ii) instrumenting for the parents having a MSc-degree using distance to nearest university …