of children from poorer families …

and behaviours. OLS regressions suggest an ambiguous association between alcohol exposure in utero and children's academic …

children in families offered vouchers (with larger effects among younger children), the results show no significant effects on … test scores for any age group among over 5000 children ages 6 to 20 in 2002 who were assessed four to seven years after …

fixed effect instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading …,100. Using a panel of over 6,000 children matched to their mothers from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth datasets allows us … reading test scores by 3.6% of a standard deviation. The results are even stronger when looking at children from disadvantaged …

Selective universities regularly employ policies that favor children of alumni (known as legacies') in undergraduate … universities and have children, however, the potential pool of legacy applicants will change markedly in racial composition. This … analysis begins with a review of the history and objectives of the preference for children of alumni in undergraduate …

This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to … estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 … children during the 1940s offer relatively poor opportunities for Black youth today. Opportunities for Black children were …