abuse on children born to mothers in the initial cohort of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a national … home and parental mental health can have notable impacts on skill development in children that may affect the stock of … household survey of high school students aged 14-22 in 1979. We follow 1587 children aged 1-5 in 1987, observing them throughout …

Child maltreatment is a pressing concern in the United States, with more than four million children referred to child … consequences for children who experience maltreatment, both in the short- and long-term. Parental mental health and substance use …

compare mothers' and fathers' willingness to pay (WTP) for specific goods for their children, diverging from the previous …This paper tests whether mothers and fathers differ in their spending on their daughters relative to their sons. We … literature's approach of comparing the expenditure effects of mothers' versus fathers' income. Our method, which we apply in …

correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …

children with behavioral problems, mental health courts, and mandatory outpatient treatment are inconclusive …