Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in … substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families. …

Children adopted from abroad are an immigrant group about which little is known. According to the U.S. Census more than … one and a half million children living in the U.S. are adopted, with fifteen percent of them born abroad. In fact more … mostly white, wealthy, and well educated (Kossoudji, 2008). What are the characteristics of children who are adopted from …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

migrate to the United States and leave their children behind. Then, after the parent(s) have achieved some degree of stability … in the United States, the children follow. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, we examined the hypothesis that … separation during migration results in problems at school after re-unification. We find that children separated from parents …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identfication of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …