Home with Mom: The Effects of Stay-at-Home Parents on Children’s Long-Run Educational Outcomes
研究挪威1998年一项鼓励父母居家照顾3岁以下子女的政策，发现该政策显著提高了年长子女的初中毕业成绩，且效果主要源于母亲减少劳动参与。
In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children under the age of 3. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected the long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using comprehensive administrative data, we estimate a difference-in-differences model that exploits differences in older siblings' exposures to the program. We find a significant positive treatment effect on older siblings' tenth-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.