environment and preschool well-being : an examination of children entering the child welfare system during infancy / Brenda Jones … Harden ... [et al.] -- Risk and resilience among children referred to the child welfare system : a longitudinal investigation … continuity of children's placements in formal and informal substitute care / Mark Testa, Christina M. Bruhn, and Jesse Helton …

inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …

before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly … linked to inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when … children enter school. Parenting matters, and the true measure of child advantage and disadvantage is the quality of parenting …

needs, money on hand, use of friends and family for assistance, and employment) of families and children with very low … Child Tax Credit (CTC), which provided monthly, unconditional cash payments to families with children from July to December …. We find some evidence that the credit reduced medical hardships, reduced reliance on friends and family for food, and …

We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the … likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises … respondents have approximately .2 to .4 more actual and expected number of children if they are self-employed as compared to if …