identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …

This paper examines how child maltreatment is affected by the economic circumstances of parents. 'Child maltreatment … structure, welfare benefits, and child maltreatment. Welfare programs affect the incentives of women and men to work and to live …, welfare reforms can be expected to affect the incidence of child maltreatment. Although is too early to accurately determine …

Previous research has shown a strong connection between birth weight and future child outcomes. But this research has … not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily …

Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One … parents to purchase high-quality child care. Consequently, there are reasons to be concerned about the implications of child … care subsidies for child development. In this paper, we provide a systematic assessment of the impact of subsidy receipt on …