will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare … intergenerational effects on their children. A study of focused home-visiting programs that target parents enables us to isolate a …This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within …

children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show … what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours mainly reflect movements into jobs by parents who …, in prior decades, would have remained at home. This increase in market work has raised incomes for children in the …

, suggesting a causal link between the parental employment shock and children's academic difficulties. These effects are … concentrated among children whose parents have a high school education or less …We study the relationship between parental job loss and children's academic achievement using data on job loss and …

the role of children and show that many potential explanations for the remaining gender disparities in labor market … outcomes are related to the fact that children impose significantly larger penalties on the career trajectories of women … the differential impacts of children on women and men. We propose a simple model of household decision-making to motivate …

families based on the number of children, with families containing two or more children now receiving substantially more in … EITC with two or more children compared to those with only one child. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factors … Surveillance Survey, we find in difference-in-difference models that for low-educated mothers of two or more children, the number …

Many believe that increasing the quantity of children will lead to a decrease in their quality. This paper exploits … significantly increased school enrollment of first-born children by approximately 16 percentage-points. The effect is larger for … households where the children are of the same sex …

unwed parents. These children are the fastest growing group of children in the US, and they are the least likely to receive … suggest that further gains in child support payments will rest with our ability to collect child support for children born to …