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": The Work and Family Transitions Project -- "A Little Can Go a Long Way": Workplace Policies and Parents' Well …-Jenkins examines the workplaces of low-income workers as a critical but often overlooked social setting that shapes family life and … years of research and more than fifteen hundred family interviews, Maureen Perry-Jenkins describes how new parents cope with …
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for mental health, and that more adolescents continued into grade 12. We found no increase in fertility, family …
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We study impacts of a cash transfer program with no means-test and no work restrictions: the US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Disability Compensation program. Our empirical strategy leverages quasi-random assignment of veterans claiming mental disorder disability to examiners who vary in...
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This paper provides new evidence on the causal relationship between income and health by studying a randomized experiment in which 1,000 low-income adults in the United States received $1,000 per month for three years, with 2,000 control participants receiving $50 over that same period. The cash...
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variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income … helping family escape poverty is smaller for Black than White families, and this is not as a result of a lower parent … poverty. Aims: Using a nationally representative sample of American families with children, this study investigated racial …
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