It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than … children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … children’s outcomes in terms of educational attainment and earnings using data from Sweden and the United States. Comparing the …

spend significantly more money on the welfare of children and less on consumption of adult goods. In an attempt to explain … persons lacking the financial means to rely on themselves during old-age invest more in children who care for them in later … of expenditure allocated towards the welfare of children. FHH having access to alternative means of old-age security …

treatment to low birth weight children from both higher- and low-income families between ages one and three, shows much larger … impacts among low- than higher-income children. Projecting IHDP impacts to the U.S. population's IQ and achievement … trajectories suggests that such a program offered to low-income children would essentially eliminate the income-based gap at age …

children from both higher and low-income families between ages one and three. The IHDP data are uniquely suited to developing … credible evidence on gap closing because other experiments have excluded children from higher income families. We first show … IHDP program impacts were generally much stronger among low- than higher-income children. We project that at age three – at …