-skilled workers with children. Other evidence tying changes in well-being to the tax credit is confounded by other policy changes …

to minorities affect ethnicity choices for children in ethnically mixed marriages. We document that, on average, such … policies increase the propensity of choosing minority status for the children. Meanwhile, responses to the same policies differ …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

the family farm or provide care and assistance around the house). However, children themselves may prefer to migrate when … limit investments in some children's education so that they will not find it optimal to migrate when they reach maturity … attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school …

father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been empowered. This transformation coincided with … rise in relative earnings of wives increased competition between spouses for the love and affection of their children while … the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has …

to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world … introduction of short paid and unpaid leave programs can improve children's short- and long-term outcomes. Fourth, while more …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

We estimate the causal effect of each county in the U.S. on children's incomes in adulthood. We first estimate a fixed … effects model that is identified by analyzing families who move across counties with children of different ages. We then use … (c) characterize which types of areas produce better outcomes. For children growing up in low-income families, each year …