investments in children, starting from encouraging pre-natal and maternal care and early childhood health interventions and … children age 7-15 who are not enrolled in school. Wage labor for 13-15 year olds was reduced by at least one-third. We also …

Cash transfers to families with children are increasingly being restricted to parents who work, while families of non … empirical evidence regarding the effects of in-kind and cash transfer program on the children who are their intended … children. Although the evidence is incomplete, it suggests that in- kind programs have stronger effects on children than cash …

contraction in Aid to Families with Dependent Children, now titled the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. To …

capital of their children. We provide new evidence on the long-term (10-year) effects of cash transfers using data from … from an experiment that randomly assigned children under the age of 6 years to “early” or “late” treatment groups. Although … the early treatment group received twice as much in transfers, we find no difference between children in the two groups on …

correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …

In 1990, in the case of Sullivan v. Zebley, the U.S. Supreme Court relaxed the criteria whereby children became … eligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Since that ruling, the number of children covered by SSI has almost … tripled; nearly 1 million American children are receiving cash and medical benefits through SSI. Many of those new enrollees …

We examine the long-term impact of expansions to Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program that … eligibility from birth to age 18 for children in cohorts affected by these expansions, and we observe their longitudinal outcomes … children whose eligibility increased paid more in cumulative taxes by age 28. These children collected less in EITC payments …