of results on children is likewise consistent with the observed variation between programs and among children of …

food security of households and children, as measured by number of affirmative responses to a food insecurity questionnaire … and an indicator for food insecurity. The effects are largest among low-income households and children, but are also … sizeable for middle-income children …

public and legislators must make regarding children's expenditures, the progressivity of the contributions between parents … goals while satisfying basic desiderata such as supporting children in both of their families, equity between siblings …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra-family … of adults in a household between 1850 and 2000, and for 16 percent of the decline in the number of children …

breastfeeding on child disability using data from the National Survey of Family Growth merged to the National Health Interview … Survey for a large nationally representative sample of children aged 1 to 18 years from the U.S. including over 3 … order to account for family-level unobservable confounders and employ multiple specifications including a dynamic model that …

Evaluating insurance coverage at the individual level abstracts away from the family-level decision making behind … parents and children, and even among children in different age groups. Having different insurance sources, or a mix of insured … and uninsured members of a family, may be disruptive to consistent medical care. In this paper we investigate how changes …

.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census … enumerators and linking these children across population censuses, we first document large gaps in educational attainment and … historical or family-level discrimination …

needs, money on hand, use of friends and family for assistance, and employment) of families and children with very low … Child Tax Credit (CTC), which provided monthly, unconditional cash payments to families with children from July to December …. We find some evidence that the credit reduced medical hardships, reduced reliance on friends and family for food, and …

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …