mechanisms influence family investments in children, we evaluate the extent to which these mechanisms also explain other …

Between-family differences in expenditures and output reflect the effect of simultaneous increases in children … parents toward disparity among children. In this paper we characterize the conditions on parents' preferences that determine …

-life outcomes. These studies have found limited impact of supplementary programs on children's cognitive skills, but sustained … effects on personality traits. We examine how a positive change in unearned household income affects children's emotional and … financial wellbeing on children's emotional and behavioral health and positive personality trait development. Moreover, we find …

This paper reexamines differences found between income gradients in American and English children's health, in results … the same time period, the income gradient in children's health increases with age by the same amount in the two countries … are larger in the English sample than in the American sample, and that income plays a larger role in buffering children …

children. Using the county-level introduction of U.S. family planning programs between 1964 and 1973, we find that children …

Although mental disorders are common among children, we know little about their long term effects on child outcomes …. This paper examines U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression … representative samples of children from both countries. Second, we focus on quot;screenersquot; that were administered to all …

Little is known about the relationship between family income and children's non-cognitive (or socio-emotional) skill … evolution of children's non-cognitive skills using a recent US panel dataset that tracks children between grades K-5. Findings … be explained by children's health status differences …