We present the results of a novel early childhood intervention in which disadvantaged 3-4-year- old children were … evaluated a shortened summer version of the program (2 months) in which children were treated immediately prior to the start of …

We analyze the effect of Colombia's ambitious "Free Housing" program on children's educational outcomes. The program … lotteries and linking applicants to their children. We find that public housing increases high school graduation by seven …. Their children also attend better schools and live in neighborhoods with less crime …

-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains …-term gains and negative age-18 impacts. These outcome differences arise from differences in parents' response to the program. A …

limited effectiveness, the introduction of a new modality with enhanced mentor training significantly improves children …

cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked with information on their 10- to 14-year-old children from the … parent-child activities, children feeling close to their mothers, and mothers knowing their children's whereabouts, with the … effects generally concentrated among boys. These findings have implications for children's development and contribute to a …

-separation fertility, and reduce labor supply among high-income fathers. Our findings suggest that government efforts to increase child … investments through mandates on parents can be complicated by their behavioral responses to them …

As the share of U.S. adult children living with their parents increases, it is important to understand how children who … Retirement Study (HRS) to examine the effects of boomerang children on their parents' labor market expectations and choices, as … children are associated with a small increase in their parents' subjective probability of working after age 65. However, there …

What happens to children during the early years is recognized to be very important for their long run development. It … targeted to premature children, known as Kangaroo Mother Care. We do so using data from a randomised control trial performed …