relationship between income and child development in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Treated mothers and children experienced large …

program Progresa on economic outcomes in early adulthood by leveraging the age structure of program benefits and geographic … plagued efforts to estimate longer-run impacts of Progresa and other similar programs. Childhood exposure to the program …

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

the family farm or provide care and assistance around the house). However, children themselves may prefer to migrate when … limit investments in some children's education so that they will not find it optimal to migrate when they reach maturity … attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school …

number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint … determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is … plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …

We examine the extent to which children are exposed to the welfare system through their mother's receipt of benefits … Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we find that children's welfare exposure is substantial. By age 10 over one-third of all … children will have lived in a welfare household; black, non-Hispanic children face a much higher rate of exposure. Simple …

This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there …

In this paper, we examine what groups of children are served by core childhood social-safety net programs … social safety net for children since 1990 have gone to families with earnings, and to families with income above the poverty … find that access to safety net programs during childhood leads to benefits for children and society over the long run. This …

children, but there are many open questions about how such changes can be sustained after transfers end. This paper analyzes …. Households randomly exposed to female leaders with the largest package sustained higher investments in their children and … reported higher expectations and aspirations for the future of their children. These results suggest that program design …