Developmental disabilities are not rare among U.S. children and rates have been increasing in recent decades. The …

This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within … analyze new long-run life-cycle data collected for iconic programs when participants are middle-aged and their children are in … their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare …

parent's credit access to the labor market outcomes of children in the U.S. We find that a 10% increase in parent's unused … revolving credit during their children's adolescence (13 to 18 years old) is associated with 0.28% to 0.37% greater labor … earnings of their children during early adulthood (25 to 30 years old). Using these empirical elasticities, we estimate a …

, which results in families of otherwise similar children receiving substantially different refunds during the first year of … first child leads to persistent increases in family income that likely contribute to the downstream effects on children …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes …