This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within … analyze new long-run life-cycle data collected for iconic programs when participants are middle-aged and their children are in … their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare …

divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage …The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in … birth data. First, there is a large gap in the share of children living with married parents (or two parents) that favors …

, which results in families of otherwise similar children receiving substantially different refunds during the first year of … first child leads to persistent increases in family income that likely contribute to the downstream effects on children …

a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target … child effect size. The effects are particularly pronounced in families where one of the children is disabled, for boys, and …

Approximately 75% of children aged 2 to 4 worldwide are regularly subjected to violent discipline across the globe. We … disciplining behaviors, with a 0.12 SD reduction in violence against children. Treatment children also experience fewer emotional … implications which could help decrease violence against children across the globe …

We estimate the impacts of temperature on alleged and substantiated child maltreatment among young children using … maltreatment of young children during hot periods. We rule out that our results are solely due to changes in reporting. Additional …

little is known about the mental health and well-being effects for either victims or their children. We study the costs … associated with domestic violence (DV) in the context of Norway, where we can link offenders to victims and their children over … 19% for their children in the year of the event, effects which taper off over time for the victim, but not for children …