children with lower initial family incomes vs. children with higher initial family incomes. However, offsetting this effect …, our findings also suggest that as children grow up, changes in family income ranking over time are related to children …

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

fetal growth rate is negatively associated with disruptive behaviors among male children. These results suggest that …

, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on these outcomes measured when children are 6 months old. Next, we use … children's lives. Among mothers of six month old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive …

Cycling is popular among children, but results in thousands of injuries annually. In recent years, many states and … among children. However, laws also are associated with decreases in non-head cycling injuries, as well as increases in head …

The objective of this study is to use data from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS … publicly-insured children in states that raised fees vs. in states that did not. We also consider a triple difference … specification using privately-insured children as the comparison group. Our findings indicate that raising the Medicaid primary care …

This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal … relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems. Ordinary least squares … results provide strong evidence that maternal substance use is associated with children's behavior problems. Models that …