impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where …

children enter school.We find no negative relation between maternal working hours and child outcomes as is often found for pre … full-time (boys). Furthermore, we find that planned parent-child activities are positively related to children's language … test scores. Nevertheless, we do not find that a richer home environment in terms of the number of parent-child activities …

exploit a 1993 policy reform in the Netherlands which tightened disability insurance (DI) criteria for existing claimants, and … reduced government transfers and increased tax revenue results in a fiscal gain of 5,900 euros per treated parent due to child … this and other policy reforms: ignoring parent-to-child spillovers understates the long-run cost savings of the Dutch …