Little is known about the relationship between family income and children's non-cognitive (or socio-emotional) skill … adult socioeconomic status. This paper presents new evidence of the importance of family income in the formation and … evolution of children's non-cognitive skills using a recent US panel dataset that tracks children between grades K-5. Findings …

contributions include using a broad sample of children and estimating sibling fixed effects models to control for unobserved family … effects. In this paper we look at a sample of older children and confirm and extend many of the JCMS findings in terms of a …

There have been numerous attempts to both document the income-health gradient in children and to understand the nature … multiple measures of income, and the school-based nature of the data allow us to add community SES to the model. Increasing … understanding of the income-health gradient may allow more effective targeting of interventions to decrease the gradient and hence …

have been shown to affect agricultural income and land values that persisted for years. Given the growing literature on the … suggest the effects are more pronounced among children raised in farm households, females, and those with lower maternal … education. We also provide suggestive evidence that reductions in adulthood income are a likely mechanism channel …

Several strands of research document the life-cycle impacts of lead exposure during the critical period of children … event-study analysis suggests that the impacts are more concentrated on children exposed during in-utero up to age 10. The …