How do parental resources early in life affect children's health and schooling outcomes? We address this question by …. The effects are prevalent primarily among children to high-income mothers. Impacts are driven by a combination of a …

measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children … $2,100, between 1993 and 1997. Using a panel of roughly 4,500 children matched to their mothers from National … math and reading test scores by 6% of a standard deviation in the short-run. Test gains are larger for children from …

In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of …

change in household income on the young adult outcomes of the householdś children. In this research, we examine the role that … the long run outcomes for children in affected households. We find that children who are in households affected by the … minor offenses. These effects differ by initial household poverty status as is expected. Second, we explore two possible …

allowing the marginal effects on children’s outcomes of an increase in family income to vary across the income distribution …. Our nonlinear IV and fixed-effect estimates show an increasing, concave relationship between family income and children …

inequality amplifies the negative income gradient, and that the rich are no more empathetic towards children than they are …

direct effect. This is true for the full sample of children, for boys and girls and for children in households whose mother …

. Using Danish administrative data linking parents experiencing plant closures to their children, we compare end … taking, scores, and high school enrolment among children exposed during infancy (age 0-1). Effects are largest for low …-income families and low-achieving children. The causal chain from job loss to education likely works through reduced family income …