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 …

Cash transfers to families with children are increasingly being restricted to parents who work, while families of non … empirical evidence regarding the effects of in-kind and cash transfer program on the children who are their intended … children. Although the evidence is incomplete, it suggests that in- kind programs have stronger effects on children than cash …

capital of their children. We provide new evidence on the long-term (10-year) effects of cash transfers using data from … Ecuador. Our analysis is based on two separate sources of data and two identification strategies. First, we extend the results … from an experiment that randomly assigned children under the age of 6 years to “early” or “late” treatment groups. Although …

Each year parents transfer a great deal of money to their adult children. While intuition might suggest that these … transfers are altruistic and made out of concern for the well-being of the children, empirical tests of the model have … which parents use current observations on the incomes of their children to update their expectations regarding future …

to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The TANF program is intended to serve low-income families, primarily …