instruction for children younger than the standard eligibility age for public education. I describe how ECE programs can be …

Lead poisoning has well-known impacts for the developing brain of young children, with a large literature documenting … outcomes of Flint public school children. We leverage parallel causal identification strategies, a between-district synthetic …-age children. These findings suggest that cost estimates which rely only on the negative impact of direct lead exposure …

We analyze the effect of Colombia's ambitious "Free Housing" program on children's educational outcomes. The program … lotteries and linking applicants to their children. We find that public housing increases high school graduation by seven …. Their children also attend better schools and live in neighborhoods with less crime …

Foster care provides substitute living arrangements to protect maltreated children. The practice is remarkably common …: it is estimated that 5 percent of children in the United States are placed in foster care at some point during childhood …. These children exhibit poor outcomes as children and adults, and economists have begun to estimate the causal relationship …

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

What is the impact of regulatory reforms that enhance credit market efficiency on children's human capital? Using a … parent-child panel dataset, we find that such reforms reduced children's academic performance in low-income families … employment with adverse effects on children's education, we find that among low-income families, regulatory reforms: increased …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

children's educational outcomes. We focus on children in fathers' "second families" when the second families are nuclear … families - households consisting of a man, a woman, their joint children, and no other children. We analyze outcomes for almost … 75,000 Norwegian children, all of whom, until they were at least age 18, lived in nuclear families. Controlling for a …

We use data from the 11 waves of the U.S. Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development 1991-2005, following children … instrumenting children's looks by their mother's, and do not work through teachers' differential treatment of better …-looking children, any relation between looks and a child's behavior, his/her victimization by bullies or self-confidence. Results from …

affects her children's health, but is also intrinsically linked to her spouse's labor market status and earnings. Paternal … negative effects on their children are compounded. Additionally, the consequences of poor parental health are enduring. Longer …