, but includes few men who fathered children out of wedlock. This paper asks whether increasing marriage (and possibly …

families to invest in their children’s development. Using data from the Fragile Families and Children Wellbeing Study, this … paper investigates the association between parental educational homogamy and children’s school readiness at age 5. Our …

motivated recent research on the effects of parental imprisonment on children’s development. We contribute to this literature … developmental and school readiness outcomes for approximately 3,000 urban children. We estimate cross-sectional and longitudinal … incarceration is positively associated with children’s externalizing problems at age five. Results are mixed with respect to …