worker focused on pre-school education (for children aged 3-5) in the world's largest public early-childhood program: India … deviation increases in math and language test scores after 18 months for children who remained enrolled in the program. Rates of …

Poor educational attainment is a persistent problem among Latino children, relative to non-Latinos. This paper examines … Head Start children when we compare them to siblings who did not participate in the program. On average, Head Start closes … at least 1/4 of the gap in test scores between Latino children and non-Hispanic white children, and 2/3 of the gap in the …

Statistical risk factor models are often proposed for screening high-risk children to participate in early intervention …

evidence for dynamic complementarity for medium- and low-ability children. Children who start behind only slowly catch up. Able … children are an exception. Most children master its goals for skill development, but the pace of learning varies greatly among … children classified by ability. The program scales well. Costs per pupil are roughly $500 (2015 USD). At the same ages …

the role of children and show that many potential explanations for the remaining gender disparities in labor market … outcomes are related to the fact that children impose significantly larger penalties on the career trajectories of women … the differential impacts of children on women and men. We propose a simple model of household decision-making to motivate …

families based on the number of children, with families containing two or more children now receiving substantially more in … EITC with two or more children compared to those with only one child. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factors … Surveillance Survey, we find in difference-in-difference models that for low-educated mothers of two or more children, the number …

Many believe that increasing the quantity of children will lead to a decrease in their quality. This paper exploits … significantly increased school enrollment of first-born children by approximately 16 percentage-points. The effect is larger for … households where the children are of the same sex …

suggest that further gains in child support payments will rest with our ability to collect child support for children born to … unwed parents. These children are the fastest growing group of children in the US, and they are the least likely to receive …