a wide variety of child, mother and family background characteristics. The results suggest that the mother's labor …, while reducing behavior problems. These negative consequences are quite small for the average child, however, and usually … work during the child's fourth through ninth year …

of variation yield strikingly similar patterns which show that the strong parent-child correlation in human capital is … largely causal. In each case, the parent-child correlation in education is stronger with the parent that spends more time with … the child, and weaker with the parent that spends relatively less time parenting. These findings help us understand why …

first estimates that leverage variation in SNAP purchasing power across markets to examine effects of SNAP on child health …