This paper uses random assignment to estimate the causal impacts on child skills of a widely emulated early childhood … individual children and compare treatments and controls. The program substantially improves child language and cognitive, fine …

This paper examines how child maltreatment is affected by the economic circumstances of parents. 'Child maltreatment … structure, welfare benefits, and child maltreatment. Welfare programs affect the incentives of women and men to work and to live …, welfare reforms can be expected to affect the incidence of child maltreatment. Although is too early to accurately determine …

identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …

We provide new estimates of the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in Ethiopia on child …

identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …

of the child does not matter, but that children with fewer siblings, and firstborn children, are more strongly influenced …