Using the quasi-random assignment of 760,000 children in U.S. military families, we show that neighborhood attributes … across ages groups. Importantly, the same locations benefit children with equal potency across race or sex. Twenty years of … Army's quasi-random assignment reduces Black-white earnings gaps among the children of Army personnel by 23% …

education program. We follow participants into late midlife as well as their children into adulthood. Impacts on the original … participants and their children generate substantial benefits. Access to life-cycle data enables us to evaluate the accuracy of …

We use field experiments with nearly 900 children to investigate how skills developed at ages 3-5 drive later …. Returning to the children up to 7 years later, we find that executive functions, but not cognitive skills, predict the … likelihood of receiving disciplinary referrals. Economic preferences have an independent effect: children who displayed …

did not weaken the relationship between early-life disadvantages and wages. This implies that advantaged children had …