An estimated 94,000 children in Louisiana have a parent who is behind bars, with devastating effects on children and … families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children … experiences parental incarceration today, compared to one in 125 children in 1985. Black children are particularly affected by …

to a child. Instead, they seem to mirror the psychological effects of having, raising, and investing in children …

to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold …

determinants of the height gap between children in India and sub-Saharan Africa as Jayachandran & Pande (2... …To overcome poverty, strengthening human development is crucial. However, today 250 million children younger than 5 …

children consider parental wealth as part of their own precautionary savings. We do not find strong evidence of any of these … transfers from parents to children are significant exactly around the time where children buy their first home. Using a panel … data set issued from Danish administrative registers with information about wealth of a sample of first-time homeowners and …

a substantial adverse effect of children's exposure to parental migration on height-for-age Z-scores of left … associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show …-behind children relative to children who migrate with their parents. Additional results from a standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …

Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation …'s accumulation of wealth and investor behavior as adults, even when removing the genetic connection between children and the parents …