Child maltreatment is a pressing concern in the United States, with more than four million children referred to child … consequences for children who experience maltreatment, both in the short- and long-term. Parental mental health and substance use …

We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States … outcomes for foreign-born Mexican mothers across counties with different application rates under IRCA's large …

suggest the effects are more pronounced among children raised in farm households, females, and those with lower maternal …

remaining 84 percent. Place effects are more influential for children of non-college-educated mothers, and are most strongly …This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of …

-monotonically with parental income, and that children of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution have higher rates of low …

mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and … parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on …

, led to significant terror and disruptions in daily life over a three-week period. We compare birth outcomes of children …