mechanisms influence family investments in children, we evaluate the extent to which these mechanisms also explain other …

Between-family differences in expenditures and output reflect the effect of simultaneous increases in children … parents toward disparity among children. In this paper we characterize the conditions on parents' preferences that determine …

In this paper we explore income and race differences in nine measures of the health of children aged 6 through 11. We … black and white children and of children from high and low income families, but these differences by no means overwhelmingly … favor the white or high-income children. With respect to differences by race, whether or not they are adjusted for …

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 …

Although mental disorders are common among children, we know little about their long term effects on child outcomes …. This paper examines U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression … representative samples of children from both countries. Second, we focus on "screeners" that were administered to all children in our …

-income families with children in the United States, with 1.04 million children currently receiving SSI benefits and 6 percent of … children in a household with some SSI income. In this paper we use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation …

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 …

This paper examines the effects of family structure on the economic resources available to children, using family fixed … children born to two-parent households, and the effects of marriage on children born into single-parent households are both … food consumption is reduced by 17%. Six or more years after the most recent marriage, income of children born to single …