than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when … from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in … substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families …

data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in …

Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool … children with similar educational opportunities as children in native families. This paper examines whether the introduction of …