The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected American children, including disruptions to their care and school … settings. Children attending in-person child care or school have contended with unpredictable closures and time in remote … investigated the frequency and consequences of disruptions to children's child care and school arrangements during fall 2020. The …

clinical depression. Our analysis also reveals that this impact is most pronounced among the youngest children including those … prioritizing children and a long-term horizon in public health planning and response may be critical to mitigating the adverse …

show that a policy targeting additional health resources for the young children of adults diagnosed with mental health …

We use data on all middle and high school-aged children who survived a mass shooting incident on July 22, 2011 in Utoya …-in-differences design to compare survivors to a matched control group, we find that in the short run children who survive have substantially … appear to be limited impacts on school-aged peers of survivors. While this event affected the entire country, we show that …

stakes testing for college entry. Leveraging age cutoffs for school entry in Taiwan, we compare August-born children to … around four school milestones including: Primary and middle school entry, high stakes testing for high school, and high … children born in September of the same year. The former hit all the milestones one year earlier than the latter, enabling us to …

This paper studies how in utero exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures affects later mental health. We find … fetal stress from family ruptures and possibly from economically induced stressors such as unemployment. They further … suggest that greater stress exposure among the poor may partially explain the intergenerational persistence of poverty …

-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies--augmented with a …