. This paper evaluates a school-based intervention in India that engaged adolescents in classroom discussions about gender …

attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school … 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 …

We ask whether failing one or more of the state-mandated high-school exit examinations affects whether students … graduate from high school. Using a new multi-dimensional regression-discontinuity approach, we examine simultaneously scores on …

interventions to reduce crime and dropout by changing the decision-making of economically disadvantaged youth. We study a program … called Becoming a Man (BAM), developed by the non-profit Youth Guidance, in two RCTs implemented in 2009–10 and 2013– 15. In … violent-crime arrests by 45–50%, improved school engagement, and in the first study where we have follow-up data, increased …

coeducational to single-sex. I exploit these conversions to identify the causal effect of single-sex schooling holding other school … national exams and are four percentage points more likely to complete secondary school. There are also important non …

Children from low-income families face persistent barriers to accessing high-quality health care services. Previous … research studies have examined the importance of expanding children's health insurance coverage, but there is little prior …. We study how the significant expansion of school-based health centers (SBHCs) in the United States since the early 1990's …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college … and infants of black high school dropout mothers …

The poor health status of children in the U.S. relative to other industrialized nations has motivated recent efforts to … extend insurance coverage to underprivileged children. There is little past evidence that extending eligibility for public … of the Medicaid program to low income children. We find that these expansions roughly doubled the fraction of children …

school completion or avoiding poverty at age 25, the “marriage premium for children” is highest for children of mothers with …A large literature exists on the impact of family structure on children's outcomes, typically focusing on average … children of married parents. We propose that the gains to marriage from a child's perspective depend on a mother's own level of …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … lower quality. Using Norwegian register data, we compare outcomes of children of sisters who have first births at different … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative …