intergenerational transmission of education. We test whether education transmission is higher when children enter kindergarten and …

parental welfare participation for children from marginal welfare participants, we know very little about intergenerational … spillovers of welfare participation onto the children of average welfare participants. By combining rich administrative data from … welfare participation on children’s welfare participation in the general population, as well as the average causal effect for …

not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or …

show that a policy targeting additional health resources for the young children of adults diagnosed with mental health …

impact both younger and older children. The average treated student in our setting has an expected income reduction of $5 …-fourth of a standard deviation, reducing class size by 5 students, or increasing school spending per pupil by $750. The marginal … impacts of lead are larger in impoverished, non-white counties, and among students with greater duration of exposure, even …

Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based …

performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students … performance and change in major. And in the long run it did not produce any difference in income or labor market outcomes. We do …

significantly influenced by the timing of their experiences. Using administrative data, we study whether the order in which students … Academy in which students are randomly assigned to certain courses either during or after the semester in which they are … required to select their college major. We find that when students are assigned to a course in the same semester as they select …