connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

ages. We study effects of a text-based program for parents of kindergarten children, distinguishing a general program from …; and their parents reported engaging more in literacy activities. Effects were driven by children further from average …Recent studies show that texting-based interventions can produce educational benefits in children across a range of …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production … investments affect cognitive development at all ages, but more so for younger children. Investments also have an impact on health …

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 …

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 …

During the 1990s many states extended Medicaid eligibility to low-income parents who were not receiving welfare. We … increased the coverage of children, presumably by raising the benefit to the family of applying for coverage. We find …

reduced crime rates of the targeted generation and their children by comparable amounts. We attribute these outcomes to …