identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …

between foster care and life outcomes. This paper describes tradeoffs in child welfare policy and provides background on the …

parent-child panel dataset, we find that such reforms reduced children's academic performance in low-income families … mother's employment hours, reduced parental supervision and parent-child discussions about school and college, and had bigger … adverse effects when mothers were not already working full-time and grandparents were not living with the child …

of variation yield strikingly similar patterns which show that the strong parent-child correlation in human capital is … largely causal. In each case, the parent-child correlation in education is stronger with the parent that spends more time with … the child, and weaker with the parent that spends relatively less time parenting. These findings help us understand why …

We use data from the 11 waves of the U.S. Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development 1991-2005, following children … 7, 11 and 16 in the U.K. National Child Development Survey 1958 cohort show larger effects. The extra gains persist when …-looking children, any relation between looks and a child's behavior, his/her victimization by bullies or self-confidence. Results from …