the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …

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. …

low-income 4 year olds. State pre-K programs targeted toward disadvantaged children do not. Differences in other pre- K … universal preschools offer a relatively high-quality learning experience for low-income children not reflected in typical …

adopted and own birth children to obtain genetically unbiased estimates. Our results provide a much better insight on whether …

parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … education and wages for the children born under these policies. The mobility effect, chiefly an increase in intergenerational … mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of …

, evidence suggests that children with fathers who are ‘more involved’ perform better during the early years than their peers … with less involved fathers. This paper analyses data of four OECD countries — Australia; Denmark; United Kingdom; United … States — to describe how leave policies may influence father’s behaviours when children are young and whether their …

Immigrant children in the US tend to perform worse in reading, mathematics, and science compared to native children … linked to age at arrival, and that migrant children arrive at different ages from different countries of origin. In … particular, I instrument English proficiency by comparing children from English-speaking countries to children from non …

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 …