moving from foster care to adoption or kin guardianship, improved school stability, and reduced school suspensions. This …This paper reports new evidence that giving financial rewards for adopting a child from foster care or becoming a kin … provide evidence of its positive effects on outcomes beyond the child welfare system …

intergenerational transmission of educational attainment, income and health vary when a child is being raised by adoptive rather than …

One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However … unobserved parental ability. In the end, family income still has a significant effect, which must therefore be causative. It …