. Analyses of a large-scale longitudinal dataset in the U.S., and a much smaller dataset of Chinese parents and children, show …

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

dynamic model of consumption and labor supply. We emphasize two key results. First, a psychology-based theory of poverty traps … of financial stress. On the other hand, naifs dis-save, fall into a poverty trap, and incur high welfare losses. Second …

panel data model and data for 2000 to 2014, we estimate the relationship between the business cycle and child poverty, and …In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular … we examine how and to what extent the safety net is providing protection to at-risk children. We find compelling evidence …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992-2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in … substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families …

Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal … site opened or closed within one mile of their home. I find that children who were exposed prenatally to industrial …

Children's indirect exposure to the justice system through biological parents or co-resident adults is both a marker of …) observe non-incarceration events, (2) follow children throughout their childhood, and (3) measure adult non-biological parent …: prison - 9% of children born between 1999-2005, felony conviction - 18%, and any criminal charge - 39%. Charge exposure rates …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …