associations with adult health. Net of adolescent influences, completed education has a significant association with adult health …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million … children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background … development …

This study investigates the relationship between parental employment and child cognitive development using data from … employment may be particularly costly for children in traditional' two-parent families. Finally, the data suggest that paternal … employment on child cognitive development …

We examine the extent to which children are exposed to the welfare system through their mother's receipt of benefits … Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we find that children's welfare exposure is substantial. By age 10 over one-third of all … children will have lived in a welfare household; black, non-Hispanic children face a much higher rate of exposure. Simple …

reviews a large body of empirical work investigating whether these programs make a difference for children's development, and …The foundations for successful child development are established in early childhood. Two main policy approaches for … life outcomes. This suggests that early childhood programs might play a significant role in helping children realize their …

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

This paper combines multiple sources of information on early childhood development in a unified model for analysis of a … model, we combine observational data with experimental data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP) which …

We conduct experiments eliciting risk preferences with over 1,400 children and adolescents aged 3-15 years old. We … significantly greater risk aversion than adolescent boys. This pattern is not observed among young children, suggesting that the … (specifically math ability) are positively associated with risk taking. Executive functions among children, and soft skills among …