. By definition, informal care is unpaid. It remains a puzzle why so many adult children give freely of their time … 2003 waves of National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women. We examine whether the elderly parents give more inter …-vivos monetary transfers to adult children who provide informal care, by examining both the extensive and intensive margins of …

We examine differences in the prescribing of psychiatric medications to low-income and higher-income children in the … that conditional on diagnosis and medical history, low-income children are more likely to be prescribed antipsychotics and … benzodiazepines than higher-income children who see the same doctors. These are drugs with potentially dangerous side effects that …

children are released into the air. In this paper we estimate the effect of these releases on the health of newborns. Using …

and 2019 and the number of uninsured children increased. This study provides the first national, quantitative assessment … coverage. In addition, we undertake to identify the groups of children who were most affected by administrative burden. We show … mean of 5.4 percent within the year following the implementation of these changes. Declines were largest for children …

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a widely used program. Previous … research shows that WIC improves birth outcomes, but evidence about impacts on children and families is limited. We use a … regression discontinuity leveraging an age five when children become ineligible for WIC and examine nutritional and laboratory …

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

tests. These effects are stronger in counties where both parents and children have higher educational aspirations. Hence … stakes testing for college entry. Leveraging age cutoffs for school entry in Taiwan, we compare August-born children to … children born in September of the same year. The former hit all the milestones one year earlier than the latter, enabling us to …