. We conduct a field experiment to elicit time preferences of over 1,200 children ages 3-12, who make several intertemporal … that time preferences evolve substantially during this period, with younger children displaying more impatience than older … children. We also find a strong association with race: black children, relative to white or Hispanic children, are more …

Parent engagement with their children plays an important role in children's eventual economic success and numerous … little about what motivates parents to engage in their children's development, recent research suggests that ignoring or … reports results from a randomized field experiment designed to increase the time that parents of children in subsidized …

stimulation program in Colombia, whose target population were low-income households with children aged 12 to 24 months at baseline …-child interactions and other maternal behaviors that foster the development of children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills. We show … that the vast majority of mothers believe that the technology of skill formation follows a Cobb-Douglas parameterization …

This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … number of children, better knowledge and higher probability of using contraceptives, recognition that family size can … compromise children quality, larger role for women in family decision making, less religiosity, and positive attitude towards …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college … educated mothers are particularly responsive to changes in environmental amenities. I estimate that differences in exposure to … toxic releases may explain 6% of the gap in incidence of low birth weight between infants of white college educated mothers …

Surveillance Survey, we find in difference-in-difference models that for low-educated mothers of two or more children, the number … families based on the number of children, with families containing two or more children now receiving substantially more in … benefits. If income is protective of health, we should see improvements over time in the health for mothers eligible for the …

children's lives. Among mothers of six month old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive …, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on these outcomes measured when children are 6 months old. Next, we use … symptoms and self-reported parenting stress, and negatively associated with self-rated overall health among mothers. Compared …

between mothers that could bias estimates. Our results are consistent with recent experimental results in the neurobiological … development. Moreover, we find that not only are mothers with low levels of human capital characterized by higher and more …