Great Recession, on children's mental well-being. The Australian experience of the Great Recession represents a unique case … draw on and link data from multiple sources, including a longitudinal cohort study of children, a consumer sentiment survey … expectations shocks on mental health. For girls, however, there are modest increases in mental health problems and externalizing …

This paper assesses how the economic support provided by parents to young adults as they complete their education and … disadvantage are more likely to be residentially and financially independent of their parents than are their peers growing up in …

impact of giving parents objective information about children's academic achievement. Releasing test scores leads to more … extracurricular activities are reduced. Examining the underlying mechanisms, we show that is it public-school parents and parents of … children receiving unexpectedly "bad" test scores who alter their perceptions. Learning that a child scores above the national …

This paper analyzes the long-term consequences of children experiencing homelessness. Our primary goal is to assess the … those experiencing homelessness for the first time as children are less likely to be employed than those who were never …

-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we find that … adolescent family structure and delinquent behavior is not accounted for by the income differentials associated with fathers …

In this paper we examine whether - conditional on other family inputs - bilingual children achieve different outcomes … children's language and emotional development in depth. We relax the usual assumption that the production function underpinning … child development is not itself a function of the age of the child and estimate the bilingual gap in children's language and …