-life outcomes. These studies have found limited impact of supplementary programs on children's cognitive skills, but sustained … effects on personality traits. We examine how a positive change in unearned household income affects children's emotional and … financial wellbeing on children's emotional and behavioral health and positive personality trait development. Moreover, we find …

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 …

Information about children's school performance appears to be readily available. Do frictions prevent parents … test this. I find that parents' baseline beliefs about their children's academic performance are inaccurate. Providing … adjust their investments: they increase the school enrollment of their higher-performing children, decrease the enrollment of …

. We conduct a field experiment to elicit time preferences of over 1,200 children ages 3-12, who make several intertemporal … that time preferences evolve substantially during this period, with younger children displaying more impatience than older … children. We also find a strong association with race: black children, relative to white or Hispanic children, are more …