How does welfare affect the prosperity of mothers and their children? We study this question using a Canadian welfare … reform and by linking administrative welfare records to tax returns, nearly all medical spending, and children's educational … attainment. Eighty percent of mothers in the complier group found employment within a year, and for many, total income rose …

state of the recent empirical literature on why and how children work as well as the consequences of that work. …

local students in Shanghai, where local students all go to public schools, but migrant students are endogenously selected … all student groups. We conduct policy experiments to examine the effect of transferring migrant students from private …

We study the impact of child work on cognitive development in four Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries. We advance the … by controlling for children's complete time allocation budget. This allows us to estimate effects of different types of …

parents with children under age 3 were distressed and that 61 percent of households reported cutting down on the size of or …This paper analyzes the risks to child development and school readiness among children under age 6 in Pakistan. Drawing … nationally representative estimates of child development for children under 3 years of age and school readiness for children 3 to …