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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

, even though displacement episodes early in children's lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children's teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

. 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 …