Many progressive American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with
low levels of income inequality and high levels of income mobility across generations. It has …

Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of
income inequality and high levels of income mobility across generations. It has in place …

We investigate the role of gender, family SES, school SES, and their intersection in
educational achievement using a twin design. Drawing on theories of gene-environment …

We explore how access to Head Start affects maternal labor supply. By relaxing childcare
constraints, public preschools like Head Start might lead mothers to reallocate time among …

Predictive relations between language and literacy skills during the preschool years and
children's future reading achievement are well-documented, leading to development and …

We exploit exogenous variation from a school desegregation policy to investigate the
determinants of academic achievement and wellbeing of dual language learners. The policy …

We analyse short-and medium-term effects of school displacement on ethnic minority
children with language support need. We implement a difference-in-differences strategy …

Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil
school expenditure across districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school …

What appears to be ineffectiveness of educational interventions in the long run may actually
be caused by statistical artefacts in the equating of tests taken at different time points or by …

This study exploits experimental variation in parent human capital (early-life school-based
deworming) and a shock to schooling (extended Covid closures) to estimate how these …