The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender … children. In contrast, there are no penalties for men who were headstrong or for women who were dependent. While other child …

of children from poorer families …

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 …

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … from a novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parent skill advantages due to their teacher and classroom peer … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005. Using these data, we show that reductions … of lead from even historically low levels have significant positive effects on children's reading test scores in third ….1 percentage points (on a baseline of 12 percent). Moreover, as we show, poor and minority children are more likely to be exposed …

We present a model of endogenous schooling and earnings to isolate the causal effect of parents' education on children …'s education and earnings outcomes. The model suggests that parents' education is positively related to children's earnings, but … its relationship with children's education is ambiguous. Identification is achieved by comparing the earnings of children …

, which results in families of otherwise similar children receiving substantially different refunds during the first year of … first child leads to persistent increases in family income that likely contribute to the downstream effects on children …