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' encompasses a wide range of behaviors that adversely affect children. It includes neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and other … that the economic circumstances of parents matter: increases in the fractions of children with absent fathers and working …
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Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6 …, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with … maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …
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the United States is comprised of former foster children--yet there is little evidence on whether this relationship is … that foster care placement substantially reduced the chances of adult arrests, convictions, and incarceration for children … at the margin. Exploring mechanisms, we find that foster care also improved a range of children's safety, academic, and …
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attainment of taller individuals. We then turn to the NLSY79 Children and Young Adult Survey to better understand what specific …
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almost 60 years, for both the affected cohorts and for their children. To do this, we exploit a natural experiment provided … faced by immigrant children were not correlated with other factors that affected the long-term outcomes of individuals. We … locality of residence was a Yemenite enclave. We find that children who were placed in a better environment (i.e. with better …
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association remains unclear. In this paper we consider a new explanation: that children born at different times in the year are … women giving birth throughout the year in the United States. Children born in the winter are disproportionally born to women …
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We estimate the effects of having more mature peers using data from an experiment where children of the same age were …
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declined by more than half. This paper explores whether improvements in the economic well-being of children have accompanied … Population Surveys over the years 1988 through 2001. Specifically, we link data for families with children who are interviewed in … becomes insignificant in the presence of business cycle controls. We also determine that children who were poor at an initial …
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Little is known about the relationship between family income and children's non-cognitive (or socio-emotional) skill … evolution of children's non-cognitive skills using a recent US panel dataset that tracks children between grades K-5. Findings … be explained by children's health status differences …
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This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC)....
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