We analyze long-term impacts of the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War, providing the first evidence of intergenerational …

Studies of intergenerational mobility have largely ignored health despite the central importance of health to welfare …. We present the first estimates of intergenerational health mobility in the US by using repeated measures of self … disrupting intergenerational health transmission than income transmission. We further show that health and income each capture a …

assistance for low-income families, on the next generation as they transition to adulthood. We estimate effects by gender and … reform. Overall, the results from this study suggest that the intergenerational effects of welfare reform on adolescent …

immigrants arises not just from intergenerational improvements in years of schooling and English proficiency, but also from …

Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters … proceed from novel administrative data on homeless families observed in the context of a scarcity-induced natural experiment …

find that families placed in shelters in their neighborhoods of origin remain there considerably longer than those assigned … to distant shelters. Locally-placed families also access more public benefits and are more apt to work. A fixed effects … model assessing multi-spell families confirms these main results. Complementary instrumental variable and regression …