respondents have approximately .2 to .4 more actual and expected number of children if they are self-employed as compared to if …

children and use this tool to show that children from high socioeconomic status (SES) families are more accurate in their self …-assessment, compared to children from low SES families. To move beyond correlational evidence, we then exploit the exogenous variation of … participation in a mentoring program designed to enrich the social environment of children. We document that the mentoring program …

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 …

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. …

characteristics. Adoption costs are lower for older children, special needs children, and children of African descent. To our … inform policies regarding the transition of children from foster care to adoptive families and may help to determine …

Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but … control experiment in which more than one thousand children attending grades 6-10 across 15 different schools and 5 school … districts in California were randomly given computers to use at home. Children in the treatment group are more likely to report …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …