This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden … using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much … education. -- Child poverty ; neighbourhood ; Sweden …

resources in early childhood also affects the working of the local economy. Geographic variation in child care services … universal child care during a period of national reform to raise and equalize the child care coverage across Norway. We apply a … level data about quantity and quality of child care and various community controls. Given a reform driving the expansion of …

show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for …

show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for …

-provincial migrations. We test four different mechanisms of how parental migration affects child development including parental financial …