“...We study a change in maternity leave entitlements in Norway. Mothers giving birth before July 1, 1977, were eligible for 12 weeks of unpaid leave, while those...”

“...Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and...”

“...Teenage peers are perceived as being important, but there is little conclusive evidence demonstrating this. This paper uses data on the population of Norway...”

“...This article investigates whether increasing mandatory educational attainment through compulsory schooling legislation encourages women to delay childbearing...”

“...Job reallocation is considered a key characteristic of well-functioning labor markets, as more productive firms grow and less productive ones contract or...”

“...Given the wide use of child care subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer-run...”

“...Declining fertility is often attributed to the increased education of women. It is difficult to establish a causal link because both fertility and education...”

“...Using Norwegian population panel data with nearly career-long earnings histories, we provide a detailed picture of the causal relationship between schooling...”

“...Using a variance decomposition framework that bounds the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find important effects of family characteristics and...”

“...We use a population-based employer-employee dataset to analyze changes in job stability in Norway. We first present descriptive analyses of tenure and...”