impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not …

-experimental variation created by the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in May 24th 1991. Children in utero prior to immigration faced … dramatic differences in medical care technologies, prenatal conditions, and prenatal care at the move from Ethiopia to Israel … that children exposed in an earlier stage of the pregnancy to better environmental conditions in utero have two decades …

children exposed in utero versus after birth. The identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in the conflict … war-exposed children subsequently have lower height-for-age Z-scores, and impacts using GPS information are 87-188% larger … in magnitude, and children in the war instigating and losing country (Eritrea) suffer more than the winning nation …

' encompasses a wide range of behaviors that adversely affect children. It includes neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and other … that the economic circumstances of parents matter: increases in the fractions of children with absent fathers and working …

Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6 …, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with … maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …

the United States is comprised of former foster children--yet there is little evidence on whether this relationship is … that foster care placement substantially reduced the chances of adult arrests, convictions, and incarceration for children … at the margin. Exploring mechanisms, we find that foster care also improved a range of children's safety, academic, and …

attainment of taller individuals. We then turn to the NLSY79 Children and Young Adult Survey to better understand what specific …

almost 60 years, for both the affected cohorts and for their children. To do this, we exploit a natural experiment provided … faced by immigrant children were not correlated with other factors that affected the long-term outcomes of individuals. We … locality of residence was a Yemenite enclave. We find that children who were placed in a better environment (i.e. with better …

association remains unclear. In this paper we consider a new explanation: that children born at different times in the year are … women giving birth throughout the year in the United States. Children born in the winter are disproportionally born to women …

We estimate the effects of having more mature peers using data from an experiment where children of the same age were …