We examine the impact on the employment and earnings of low-income families of federal and state increases in funding for child care and of the changing policies and administrative procedures within the Child-Care Subsidy system that accompanied these funding increases.

This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Yoth to examine the effect of smoking on wages and employment. The panel nature and household structure of these data enable us to implement methods to account for differences in observed and unobserved individual characteristics that...