specialty substance use disorder (SUD) treatment use among children ages 12 to 18. We examine both private and public expansions … State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Private expansions are generated by state laws that compel private …, lead to increases in admissions to treatment and increased insurance coverage among children in treatment. After public …

and behaviours. OLS regressions suggest an ambiguous association between alcohol exposure in utero and children's academic … attainment, but there is a strong social gradient in maternal drinking, with mothers in higher socio-economic groups more likely …

education; less educated mothers appear to reinforce differences in non-cognitive skills between their children, while more … to catch-up in non-cognitive skills over time for children of more educated mothers … in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural …

We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States … outcomes for foreign-born Mexican mothers across counties with different application rates under IRCA's large …

mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and … parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on …

, led to significant terror and disruptions in daily life over a three-week period. We compare birth outcomes of children …