When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for … Netherlands, where children start school (kindergarten) for approximately 20 hours a week in the month that they turn 4. Using …

, they can affect parents' time allocation and family dynamics. This paper examines how extending the school day affects …Policies that extend the school day in elementary school provide an implicit childcare subsidy for families. As such … the extension in the school day by 3.5 hours leads to a significant increase in divorce rates. Moreover, the effect grows …

primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Using a regression … discontinuity design around the school enrollment cutoff and an instrumental variable approach I show that children's schooling …

. The education outcome is represented by a binary variable denoting whether the respondent completed high school or not …. Completing high school improves person's economic selfsufficiency and civic engagement. The results indicate higher probability … of graduating from high school with higher parental involvement. Moreover, the probability decreases when child disobeys …

childhood and, instead, stayed longer in school, had more prestigious jobs, and earned higher wages as adults. Finally, we find …