, which results in families of otherwise similar children receiving substantially different refunds during the first year of … first child leads to persistent increases in family income that likely contribute to the downstream effects on children …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …

.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project … there are also effects for girls. Dynamic mediation analyses show a significant role played by improved childhood traits …

This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births.We use …

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children … childhood interventions ; social experiments ; Perry Preschool program ; experimentally estimated production functions …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are …