national sample of mostly unwed parents and their children-a group at high risk of living in poverty. We account for the … working, the mother's hours of work, and the father's hours of work. These results suggest that children's health problems may … diminish their parents' capacity to invest in their health …

child health on father presence. We look at whether parents live in the same household 12-18 months after the child's birth … involved) during the same period. We find that having an infant in poor health reduces the likelihood that parents will live … together and increases the likelihood that they will become less committed to their relationship, particularly among parents …

aggregate costs of providing mandated programs for disabled children. Little attention has been paid to the effectiveness of … average special education program boosts mathematics and reading achievement of special education students, particularly those … classified as learning disabled, while not detracting from regular education students. These results are estimated quite …

determined bequests from parents that can be used to finance schooling, uncertainty in college completion related to differences … structure, we analyze tuition subsidies such as exist in most public colleges, alternative forms of need-based aid, income … more intergenerational mobility and greater income equality. But, the various policies have quite different implications …

Considerable controversy surrounds the impact of schools and teachers on the achievement of students. This paper … systematic factors a negative impact of initial years of teaching and a positive effect of smaller class sizes for low income … children in earlier grades but these effects are very small relative to the effects of overall teacher quality differences …

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …