This study uses data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to test for evidence of a causal … relationship between maternal alcohol use, marijuana use and cocaine use, and children's behavior problems. Ordinary least squares … results provide strong evidence that maternal substance use is associated with children's behavior problems. Models that …

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

enrollment among children that parents reported wanting to remain home at baseline. Children that parents want to migrate have … increased enrollment, and parents want more children to migrate … determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

adults and children. Using microdata from 33 African countries, this paper documents the co-evolution of adult education … with the educational outcomes of children. As fertility declines, children's grade attainment rises, but their school … education. Rising women's education predicts declining fertility and rising children's grade attainment, but it is less …

/sexual assault and robbery. Measures of alcohol or drug involved violent crimes are also considered. The data come from the 1992 … beer taxes will also lead to lower probabilities of alcohol- or drug-involved assault. Decriminalizing marijuana will …

adult marijuana, alcohol, and hard drug use. We employed a restricted-access version of the National Survey on Drug Use and … on hard drug use in either age group. Taken together, MML implementation increases marijuana use mainly among those over …

We examine the impact of the drug crisis that has unfolded over the last three decades in the United States on children … point in a child's life, we measure children's exposure to the crisis with the cumulative drug-related mortality of likely … estimate that if drug abuse had remained at 1996 levels, 1.5 million fewer children aged 0-16 would have lived away from a …