for children of mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of unpaid leave. -- adult outcomes ; time …We study the impact on children of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year by … school dropout. For mothers with low education we find a 5.2 percentage points decline. The effect is also especially large …

those whose mothers have less than 10 years of education. This effect is especially large for children of mothers who, in …

for children of mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of unpaid leave …We study the impact on children of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year by … school dropout. For mothers with low education we find a 5.2 percentage points decline. The effect is also especially large …

mothers spend with their children. Since the institutional context is one in which the alternative is subsidized day care, the …We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate …

30. The effect is especially large for children of those mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of …We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid … maternity leave in Norway in July 1977. Mothers giving birth before this date were eligible only for 12 weeks of unpaid leave …

those whose mothers have less than 10 years of education. This effect is especially large for children of mothers who, in …

mothers spend with their children. Since the institutional context is one in which the alternative is subsidized day care, the …We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate …

sample of more than 500 parents with pre-school aged children. Our findings show that our tool is reliable and delivers high …