fixed effect instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading …,100. Using a panel of over 6,000 children matched to their mothers from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth datasets allows us … reading test scores by 3.6% of a standard deviation. The results are even stronger when looking at children from disadvantaged …

contraceptives increased their children's college completion, labor force participation, wages, and family incomes decades later …

measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children … $2,100, between 1993 and 1997. Using a panel of roughly 4,500 children matched to their mothers from National … math and reading test scores by 6% of a standard deviation in the short-run. Test gains are larger for children from …

This paper reexamines differences found between income gradients in American and English children's health, in results … the same time period, the income gradient in children's health increases with age by the same amount in the two countries … are larger in the English sample than in the American sample, and that income plays a larger role in buffering children …

Examination Survey, we find that children's health is positively related to household income. The relationship between household … income and children's health status becomes more pronounced as children grow older. A large component of the relationship … between income and children's health can be explained by the arrival and impact of chronic health conditions in childhood …

This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their … used a lottery to assign children to limited public daycare openings. Winning the lottery translated to a 34 percent …, by which time all children were eligible for universal schooling). The rise in labor force participation is driven …

-specific effects for occupation. We conclude that important information about the links between parental incomes and children exists …