receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … care subsidies on children's weight outcomes. Our instrumental variables estimates suggest that subsidized child care leads … to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children …

children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show …, in prior decades, would have remained at home. This increase in market work has raised incomes for children in the …

these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic …

. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study … the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest …

children with substitute families. Little is known whether foster care placement reduces or increases the likelihood of … individuals who were investigated for abuse or neglect as children. Families are effectively randomized to child protection …-aged children who are on the margin of placement have lower adult arrest rates when they remain at home …

that subsidized children are more likely to receive intense exposure to low-quality child care …

Previous research has demonstrated that attending center care is associated with cognitive benefits for young children …. However, little is known about the ideal age for children to enter such care or the quot;rightquot; amount of time, both … weekly and yearly, for children to attend center programs. Using national data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study …

programs targeted toward disadvantaged children shows beneficial effects. Returns exceed costs, even accounting for the … disadvantaged children compared to home alternatives. Universal programs benefit disadvantaged children …