biological children of both parents) and children reared in other family structures (e.g., single-parent families or blended …This paper makes two contributions. First, it adds to the growing literature describing correlations between children …'s educational outcomes and family structure. Although popular discussions focus on the distinction between two-parent families and …

order has a significant and large effect on children's education; children born later in the family obtain less education … match adult children to their parents and siblings. In addition, we use exogenous variation in family size induced by the … children's educational attainment. However, when we include indicators for birth order, the effect of family size becomes …

This paper evaluates the health impact of a central piece in the U.S. safety net for families with children: the Earned …. For single low education (<= 12 years) mothers, a policy-induced treatment on the treated increase of $1000 in EITC income …

have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This …

Background: Family structure is known to influence children's behavioral, educational, and cognitive outcomes, and … recent studies suggest that family structure affects children's access to health care as well. However, no study has … addressed whether family structure is associated with the care children receive for particular conditions or with their physical …

We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using data from the 1988 National … children living with step mothers are significantly less likely to have routine doctor and dentist visits, or to have a place … for usual medical care, or for sick care. If children living with step mothers have regular contact with their birth …

for completed education, with larger returns in more recent decades. These patterns suggest that the genetic traits that … promote education might allow workers to better accommodate ongoing skill biased technological change. Consistent with this …