have their child start school late (or early). If one does not account for this endogeneity, it appears that an additional …

receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … in the distance to a public human services agency reduces the likelihood that a family receives a child care subsidy … provides an empirical application in which we use variation in families' travel distance to identify the causal effect of child …

, little is known about the effect of PE on child weight. This paper measures that effect by instrumenting for child PE time …

This paper investigates how accountability pressures under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) may affect children's rate of …

Child care subsidies play a critical role in facilitating the transition of disadvantaged mothers from welfare to work … find substantial variation in subsidy effects across the BMI distribution. In particular, child care subsidies have no … at the top of the distribution. Our results point to the use of non-parental child care, particularly centerbased …

-called fetal origins hypothesis. As such, policy interventions designed to improve child anthropometric status will only have …

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked to the Child and Young Adult Supplement. We first show that mothers' work hours … increase gradually as the age of the youngest child rises, whereas mothers' spouses' work hours exhibit a discontinuous jump at …