recovery in reporting of violence against children, pointing to important non-cognitive costs of both school closure, and …Schools are a key channel in formal reporting of violence against children, but this channel broke down with the onset … once re-openings begin. Examining the universe of all criminal reports of violence against children in Chile, we observe …

Many targeted childhood interventions such as the Perry Preschool Project select eligible children based on a risk … efficient targeting in childhood interventions. We define children to be in need of an intervention if they suffer from an …

-year-old children. We draw on individual level data from the 2000 U.S. Census, and USGS data on lead in topsoil covering a …

While over 240,000 American students experienced a school shooting in the last two decades, little is known about the … examine the effects of 44 school shootings on youth antidepressant use in a difference-in-difference framework. We find that … local exposure to fatal school shootings increases youth antidepressant use by 21.4 percent in the following two years …

increases the propensity of children to read, causing 20 percent more children to have read a book in the last week at school …We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly …

A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household … involuntary school choice, using survey data and standardized test scores from field work conducted in Shanghai. We find that … in both Chinese and Mathematics. We also use parental satisfaction and parental assessment of school quality as …

educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …