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 …

harm child development and children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed geocoded data that follows national … representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … plant opened or closed in between the conceptions of different children in the same family. I find that children who were …

understand what drives changes and differences in participation rates since the early 2000s, we build a unified empirical …

investments in children with multiple periods of childhood, income shocks, imperfect insurance, dynamic complementarity, and …

dataset from the four waves of international PISA tests spanning 2000-2009, comprising over one million students in 42 …

eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children … impact on low-status children is supported by the robustness checks. The observed patterns are most probably explained by the … better performance of kindergartens, as opposed to schools, in developing the skills of low-status children …