(SSI) program, which provides cash assistance to low-income children with disabilities, to assess how this relationship … arises. We use a large database of Medicaid administrative records to estimate the causal effects of SSI receipt on children …'s health, using a regression discontinuity design that exploits the rule that low-income children born below a birthweight …

We examine the extent to which children are exposed to the welfare system through their mother's receipt of benefits … Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we find that children's welfare exposure is substantial. By age 10 over one-third of all … children will have lived in a welfare household; black, non-Hispanic children face a much higher rate of exposure. Simple …

the potential positive benefits of such programs to children. Initially, this research on benefits to children focused on … long-run benefits to children are considered, many safety net programs are cost-effective. However, the current government … the US is still higher than most OECD countries and how research on children and the safety net can better inform policy …

children with disabilities can help close the gap in outcomes due to this initial health and environmental disadvantage. We …

Evidence shows that the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is underutilized …

cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked with information on their 10- to 14-year-old children from the … parent-child activities, children feeling close to their mothers, and mothers knowing their children's whereabouts, with the … effects generally concentrated among boys. These findings have implications for children's development and contribute to a …

significantly reduced the proportion of children stunted, while cash alone had no impact on stunting. SBCC appears to have worked in … conjunction with cash to reduce stunting by encouraging mothers to increase children's total calories and protein consumed. The …

families with children. Importantly, along with other changes, the reform imposed lifetime time limits for receipt of welfare … de facto ending the entitlement nature of cash welfare for poor families with children in the United States. Despite dire … children is more responsive after reform, and some evidence that it might be less so. There is some evidence that poverty …