A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. One …

that subsidized children are more likely to receive intense exposure to low-quality child care …

eligible parents in Wisconsin, which supplements the federal EITC for families with three children, to that of similar parents … have relied on changes in the EITC over time, or EITC eligibility differences for families with and without children, or …

In 1990, in the case of Sullivan v. Zebley, the U.S. Supreme Court relaxed the criteria whereby children became … eligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Since that ruling, the number of children covered by SSI has almost … tripled; nearly 1 million American children are receiving cash and medical benefits through SSI. Many of those new enrollees …

Cash transfers to families with children are increasingly being restricted to parents who work, while families of non … empirical evidence regarding the effects of in-kind and cash transfer program on the children who are their intended … children. Although the evidence is incomplete, it suggests that in- kind programs have stronger effects on children than cash …

investments in children, starting from encouraging pre-natal and maternal care and early childhood health interventions and … children age 7-15 who are not enrolled in school. Wage labor for 13-15 year olds was reduced by at least one-third. We also …

A large literature exists on the impact of family structure on children's outcomes, typically focusing on average … children of married parents. We propose that the gains to marriage from a child's perspective depend on a mother's own level of … school completion or avoiding poverty at age 25, the "marriage premium for children" is highest for children of mothers with …

capital of their children. We provide new evidence on the long-term (10-year) effects of cash transfers using data from … from an experiment that randomly assigned children under the age of 6 years to "early" or "late" treatment groups. Although … the early treatment group received twice as much in transfers, we find no difference between children in the two groups on …