for themselves and the children. The main implementation challenges reported were staff workload and managing groups. The … (through groups in clinics or home visits) into health services has the potential to reach a large number of children with …

characteristics. Adoption costs are lower for older children, special needs children, and children of African descent. To our … inform policies regarding the transition of children from foster care to adoptive families and may help to determine …

the variation in adoption costs is explained by child characteristics. In particular, costs lower for older children …, children of African descent, and special needs children. Findings inform policies regarding the transition of children from …

has the potential to reach a large number of children with benefits substantially higher than required investments. …

children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a … Swedish compulsory schooling reform in the 1950s and 1960s, we address this question by studying the causal effect of children …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children …

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 …