We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy … are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health. …

We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required … deaths, we identified small but statistically significant positive effects of the policy on neonatal health. We further … provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy are plausible …

migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes … home village when they were young we find a sizable adverse impact of exposure to parental migration on children's health …

Can lowering school starting age promote equality of opportunities and reduce the achievement gaps between pupils? We … provide evidence on the heterogeneous (positional) effects on early school performance of two mandatory schooling reforms in … reform reduced the school starting age from seven to six, the second changed the first-year curriculum from a play …

that a child of an incarcerated parent experiences in school may go unnoticed by educators, leading these children to …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 …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school … leaving age in the UK. Findings based on data from the National Child Development Study suggest that postponing the school …

raise their children. These findings together suggest that school closures have no lasting negative effects on marital … quality but do have lasting negative impacts on children through lifestyle changes prompted by school closures … schools on March 2, 2020, but preschools were exempted from this nationwide school closure. Taking advantage of this natural …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … more effective because we do not find any detrimental long-term effects for exposed children from higher socioeconomic … backgrounds. In contrast, exposed children from low socioeconomic backgrounds have significantly worse labor market outcomes as …