children. Using the county-level introduction of U.S. family planning programs between 1964 and 1973, we find that children … born after programs began had 2.8% higher household incomes. They were also 7% less likely to live in poverty and 12% less …

mechanisms influence family investments in children, we evaluate the extent to which these mechanisms also explain other …

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 …

-life outcomes. These studies have found limited impact of supplementary programs on children's cognitive skills, but sustained … effects on personality traits. We examine how a positive change in unearned household income affects children's emotional and … financial wellbeing on children's emotional and behavioral health and positive personality trait development. Moreover, we find …

This paper reexamines differences found between income gradients in American and English children's health, in results … the same time period, the income gradient in children's health increases with age by the same amount in the two countries … are larger in the English sample than in the American sample, and that income plays a larger role in buffering children …

Although mental disorders are common among children, we know little about their long term effects on child outcomes …. This paper examines U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression … representative samples of children from both countries. Second, we focus on quot;screenersquot; that were administered to all …

Little is known about the relationship between family income and children's non-cognitive (or socio-emotional) skill … evolution of children's non-cognitive skills using a recent US panel dataset that tracks children between grades K-5. Findings … be explained by children's health status differences …

This paper examines the effects of family structure on the economic resources available to children, using family fixed … children born to two-parent households, and the effects of marriage on children born into single-parent households are both … food consumption is reduced by 17%. Six or more years after the most recent marriage, income of children born to single …