Child Self-Administered and Self-Report surveys, we exploited variation in the implementation of welfare reform across … states, over time, and across treatment and comparison groups to estimate the effects of welfare reform on parent-child … activities and closeness of the mother-child relationship. We found that welfare reform had adverse effects on engagement in …

effects of the minimum wage on child health. To obtain estimates, we use data from the National Survey of Children’s Health in … associated with a significant improvement in child health. A particularly interesting finding is that much of the benefits of a …

health, resources and the desire to have a child and it is not feasible to conduct randomized controlled trials that deny …