policies and anti-MENA rhetoric on preventive care use among MENA children in the US. Specifically, we evaluate the election of … Donald Trump, and find that the election decreased MENA children's utilization of vaccinations and well visits. Documenting …

more likely to marry a partner with tertiary education and their children have better early childhood development outcomes ….25 standard deviations of test scores once children are of school age. The primary mechanism seems to be that more …-educated caregivers have the knowledge and skills to safeguard their children's health and stimulate their cognitive development. In …

The earned income tax credit provides important benefits to low-income families with children. At substantial costs … more by subsidizing their incomes. But low-income adults without children and non-custodial parents receive very low …

Child poverty increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone, the number of children suffering from … potential scarring effect of the pandemic, policies should be deployed to reduce rapidly the number of children affected by … poverty and mitigate the long-term impact of poverty. Reducing the number of children affected by poverty can be achieved by …

This paper studies the effects of a large welfare benefit reduction on the children in the affected families. The … average over the first five years. We show that children exposed to the welfare cut during preschool and school-age obtained … adults. Children in their teens at exposure faced large increases in conviction probabilities for violent and property crimes. …