relying on forecasts. Adult outcomes on the participants' children and siblings allow us to quantify spillover benefits. The …

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 …

Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long …

A growing literature points to children’s influence on parents’ behavior, including parental investments in children …. Further, previous research has shown differential parental response by socioeconomic status to children's birth weight … earlier, more exogenous predictor of parental investments: offspring genotype. Specifically, we analyze (1) whether children …

We present the results of a novel early childhood intervention in which disadvantaged 3-4-year- old children were … evaluated a shortened summer version of the program (2 months) in which children were treated immediately prior to the start of …

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 …

to either learn from him (if children act as teachers then adults' cost of learning the skill falls) or lean on him (if … children's human capital substitutes for that of adults in household production then adults' benefit of learning the skill … falls). I exploit regional variation in two shocks to children's human capital and examine the effect on adults. The rapid …

Large systematic differences in young children's home learning experiences have long-term economic consequences. Many …

settings. We consider a family of null hypotheses in which each null hypothesis specifies that the program has no effect on one … of several outcomes of interest. Under weak assumptions, we construct a procedure for testing this family of null …