effective at raising non-cognitive skills. Head Start is also more effective for children with less-educated mothers. Centers … that draw more children from center-based preschool have smaller effects, suggesting that cross-center differences in …

, including on learning activities. In contrast, the second intervention led to significant improvements in children’s cognitive …

We study the impact of preschool targeted at children from low-income families over the life cycle and across … attainment, earnings, and survival beyond age 65. We also show that children of women exposed to preschool obtain more education …

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …

decisions, the parent decides whether to house and support his children beyond age 18. Drawing on the work of Milgrom and … older children for their teenage risky behaviors in order to dissuade the younger children from the same risky behaviors … who engaged in teen risky behaviors will decrease with the number of remaining children at risk. We test these two …

receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … in the distance to a public human services agency reduces the likelihood that a family receives a child care subsidy … care subsidies on children's weight outcomes. Our instrumental variables estimates suggest that subsidized child care leads …

children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show … what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours mainly reflect movements into jobs by parents who …, 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 …