This paper exploits a natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of parental education on child health in Taiwan …

in Taiwan as a natural experiment. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero … during the pandemic are shorter as children/adolescents and less educated compared to other birth cohorts. We also find that …

stakes testing for college entry. Leveraging age cutoffs for school entry in Taiwan, we compare August-born children to …This study uses administrative health insurance records in Taiwan to examine changes in child mental health treatment … children born in September of the same year. The former hit all the milestones one year earlier than the latter, enabling us to …

In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while … others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials … on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim mothers reduced routine vaccination of children born after the 2000 …

the potential positive benefits of such programs to children. Initially, this research on benefits to children focused on … long-run benefits to children are considered, many safety net programs are cost-effective. However, the current government … the US is still higher than most OECD countries and how research on children and the safety net can better inform policy …

instruction for children younger than the standard eligibility age for public education. I describe how ECE programs can be …

Lead poisoning has well-known impacts for the developing brain of young children, with a large literature documenting … outcomes of Flint public school children. We leverage parallel causal identification strategies, a between-district synthetic …-age children. These findings suggest that cost estimates which rely only on the negative impact of direct lead exposure …

States. We study the fiscal cost of three such proposals that would expand refundability of the credit to low-income children … revenue due to changes in children's future earnings. We find that direct costs are by far the most important component but …

anti-poverty effect on children than any existing government program, though at a higher cost per child raised above the … at all by at least $2,000 per child for most workers with children. Relying on elasticity estimates consistent with …