-being, and renewed focus on effective policy interventions to aid disadvantaged children, we study a cohort of children born in a …

-being, and renewed focus on effective policy interventions to aid disadvantaged children, we study a cohort of children born in a …

-life outcomes. These studies have found limited impact of supplementary programs on children's cognitive skills, but sustained … effects on personality traits. We examine how a positive change in unearned household income affects children's emotional and … financial wellbeing on children's emotional and behavioral health and positive personality trait development. Moreover, we find …

Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long …

We use field experiments with nearly 900 children to investigate how skills developed at ages 3-5 drive later …. Returning to the children up to 7 years later, we find that executive functions, but not cognitive skills, predict the … likelihood of receiving disciplinary referrals. Economic preferences have an independent effect: children who displayed …