parents carried over to the entire family, making special groups of children worse off than others? To answer this question …Can moving to an earnings-related parental leave system influence children's wellbeing and are heterogeneous effects on … benefit amount compared to the pre-reform situation. 2-3-year-old children belonging to the reform's winners, however, improve …

parents carried over to the entire family, making special groups of children worse off than others? To answer this question …Can moving to an earnings-related parental leave system influence children's wellbeing and are heterogeneous effects on … benefit amount compared to the pre-reform situation. 2-3-year-old children belonging to the reform's winners, however, improve …

development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means …-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings … study the reform effects on children's language skills, motor skills, socio-emotional stability, and school readiness using …

Using rich administrative data from Norway, we evaluate a 1998 work-encouraging reform targeted at single parents. We … especially focus on educational performance for children of the involved single mothers. For all children of single mothers, the … younger single mothers, those most likely to be affected by the reform, the grade point average of their children drops …

Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …

Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force … participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the … parents' jobs and can play a role in reducing inequality. …

Ample empirical evidence has shown that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers’ labor … increased childcare for primary school children improved the quality of the jobs that mothers found. Combining plausibly …-educated mothers benefited most from the reform. Childcare can increase household welfare by improving parents’ jobs and, thus, can …