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 …

youth. -- Disconnected youth ; unemployment ; school failure ; life adversity …

Disconnectedness among youth can have several dimensions. From a socio-economic viewpoint, failure in school …, unemployment and the lack of an intimate relationship are among the most important ones. In our samples from SOEP youth … followed by increases in the number of disconnected youth. -- Disconnected youth ; unemployment ; school failure ; life …

potential intergenerational effects of changes in the age at first birth, showing that firstborn children born to older mothers …

Disconnectedness among youth can have several dimensions. From a socio-economic viewpoint, failure in school …, unemployment and the lack of an intimate relationship are among the most important ones. In our samples from SOEP youth … followed by increases in the number of disconnected youth. …

their children have better health outcomes than those of less educated women. Overall, our results suggest that the marriage …This paper examines the effects of female education on marriage outcomes by exploiting the exogenous variation …