We leverage recent income support reforms for families with children in Canada to investigate the impact of child …’s tax files, we find evidence that increased family benefit generosity improved children’s mental health, but little … concentrated among girls and that relative improvements in mental health were larger among children in higher income families. …

We study the dynamics between intra-household bargaining and parental time-intensive investments in children. We …-local variation in female bargaining power stemming from traditional inheritance practices. On average, mothers talk more to children …

-in-differences research design compares cohorts of children in treatment localities before and after the Law’s introduction to equivalent …