Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192721 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 739
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that substantially increased parents' incentives to stay home with children under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using comprehensive administrative data, we estimate a difference-in-differences model which exploits differences in older siblings' exposures to the program. We find a significant positive treatment effect on older siblings' 10th grade GPA, and this effect seems to be largely driven by mother's reduced labor force participation and not by changes in family income or father's labor force participation.
Subjects: 
Chas-for-care
Parental time
School performance
JEL: 
J13
J22
J24
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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