, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on outcomes for the children concerned. There are good reasons for … thinking that CS could leverage better outcomes than other forms of income support and, using a sample of dependent children in …

-term health status as measured by body height, children who lose their same-sex parent before teenage years are hit hardest …. Maternal bereavement does not fit into this pattern as it affects educational attainment of younger and older children in a … preferences of the surviving parent partly protect same-sex children from orphanhood's detrimental effects on human capital …

children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in … parities. An examination of the various mechanisms linking between prenatal sex selection and children outcomes suggests that …

This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine … children who lost one parent during childhood, we find a series of striking patterns which show that the relationship is … largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in …

children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …