This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive … behavior. We document large differences in the gender gap across key features of the home environment - boys do especially …-cognitive returns to parental inputs differ markedly by gender. Broken families are associated with worse parental inputs and boys' non …

We estimate the impact of increases in family size on childhood and adult outcomes using matched mother-child data from … omitted factors we find that families face a substantial quantity-quality trade-off: increases in family size decrease … children of mothers with low AFQT scores …

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is …

into account the care-giving responsibilities for young children and teenagers but not for older adults …

estimate a joint dynamic model of the behavior of older and younger siblings that allows for family specific effects …

families with children. Importantly, along with other changes, the reform imposed lifetime time limits for receipt of welfare … de facto ending the entitlement nature of cash welfare for poor families with children in the United States. Despite dire … which began in December 2007. In particular, we examine how the cyclicality of the response of program caseloads and family …

to either learn from him (if children act as teachers then adults' cost of learning the skill falls) or lean on him (if … children's human capital substitutes for that of adults in household production then adults' benefit of learning the skill … falls). I exploit regional variation in two shocks to children's human capital and examine the effect on adults. The rapid …

employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First …, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on these outcomes measured when children are 6 months old. Next, we use … dynamic panel data models to examine the effects of maternal employment on family outcomes during the first 4.5 years of …

Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources affect their children's future earnings abilities. Optimal … low-income parents than existing U.S. tax policy. It also increases the probability that low-income children move up the …