adults and children. Using microdata from 33 African countries, this paper documents the co-evolution of adult education … with the educational outcomes of children. As fertility declines, children's grade attainment rises, but their school … education. Rising women's education predicts declining fertility and rising children's grade attainment, but it is less …

their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare … intergenerational effects on their children. A study of focused home-visiting programs that target parents enables us to isolate a …This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within …

We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States …

June 2012, DACA-eligible immigrants were less likely to live with their parents or in multigenerational households (-12 …

sample of 3,500 Kenyan 3-8 year olds. Parents with additional exposure to childhood deworming have children with improved … units higher among treated parents' school-age children, only prior to school closures. Findings are interpreted through a …

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 …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

affects her children's health, but is also intrinsically linked to her spouse's labor market status and earnings. Paternal … health appears to be more linked to child schooling outcomes, especially for girls. When both parents are in poor health, the … negative effects on their children are compounded. Additionally, the consequences of poor parental health are enduring. Longer …

We present the results of a novel early childhood intervention in which disadvantaged 3-4-year- old children were … evaluated a shortened summer version of the program (2 months) in which children were treated immediately prior to the start of …