pairwise difference in ideology groups' connection patterns satisfy a condition known as the Chernoff-Hellinger divergence … categorize the ideological affiliations of the political committees, our estimates match the self reported ideology for 94.36% of …

two separate occupation-based skill measures and find that these measures are associated with ASD incidence among children …

investment in children. A key to understanding the data patterns is to document the sources underlying the observed inequalities … parents of higher SES being more likely to believe that parental investments impact child development. We then use two field … associated with enriched parent-child interactions and improved vocabulary, math, and social-emotional skills for the 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 …, neutral medical decisions, and not requiring higher contributions from parents with a lower salary …

Foster care provides substitute living arrangements to protect maltreated children. The practice is remarkably common …: it is estimated that 5 percent of children in the United States are placed in foster care at some point during childhood …. These children exhibit poor outcomes as children and adults, and economists have begun to estimate the causal relationship …

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

unexplored margin: how children's programs impact parents' well-being. We explore changes in children's public health insurance …A rich literature documents the benefits of social safety net programs for children. This paper focuses on an … and its effects on parents' economic and behavioral outcomes. Using a simulated eligibility for Medicaid eligibility …

emphasis on isolating the effects of diet and parent's fatness on the obesity outcome. The results show that parents fatness … has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth among children and adolescents. Diets between obese and non …-obese youth, however, do not differ substantially. Evidence that youth with "fatter parents" are able to produce more skin-fold or …