We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are … remittances …

years immediately after birth. This study analyzes whether the across-cohort patterns in the black-white education and …-of-test taking.With Census data, we find: i) a significant narrowing across the same cohorts in education gaps driven primarily by a … gains is greater than can be explained by only the black gains in education and test scores for reasonable estimates of the …

effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian …

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

, lowering the return to native education and discouraging native high school completion. Conversely, native children might be … completion of natives in the United States. Immigrant children could compete for schooling resources with native children …

children in families offered vouchers (with larger effects among younger children), the results show no significant effects on … test scores for any age group among over 5000 children ages 6 to 20 in 2002 who were assessed four to seven years after …

Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and … children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …

measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children … $2,100, between 1993 and 1997. Using a panel of roughly 4,500 children matched to their mothers from National … math and reading test scores by 6% of a standard deviation in the short-run. Test gains are larger for children from …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992–2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in … substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families …