(SSI) program, which provides cash assistance to low-income children with disabilities, to assess how this relationship … arises. We use a large database of Medicaid administrative records to estimate the causal effects of SSI receipt on children …’s health, using a regression discontinuity design that exploits the rule that low-income children born below a birthweight …

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 … children is more responsive after reform, and some evidence that it might be less so. There is some evidence that poverty …

children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of …

of results on children is likewise consistent with the observed variation between programs and among children of …

Evidence shows that the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is underutilized …

This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there …

children, but there are many open questions about how such changes can be sustained after transfers end. This paper analyzes …. Households randomly exposed to female leaders with the largest package sustained higher investments in their children and … reported higher expectations and aspirations for the future of their children. These results suggest that program design …

investments in children, starting from encouraging pre-natal and maternal care and early childhood health interventions and … children age 7-15 who are not enrolled in school. Wage labor for 13-15 year olds was reduced by at least one-third. We also …

In this paper, we examine what groups of children are served by core childhood social-safety net programs … social safety net for children since 1990 have gone to families with earnings, and to families with income above the poverty … find that access to safety net programs during childhood leads to benefits for children and society over the long run. This …