Income Dynamics (PSID). We find that children raised by step, adoptive or foster mothers obtain significantly less education …

In this paper we evaluate the degree to which the adverse parental divorce effect on university education operates … education outcome. Non-economic mechanisms, such as psychological and mental shocks, are more likely to dominate. Our further …

associations with adult health. Net of adolescent influences, completed education has a significant association with adult health …

income and maternal education. We find that mental health conditions, and especially ADHD, have large negative effects on … future test scores and schooling attainment, regardless of family income and maternal education …

order has a significant and large effect on children's education; children born later in the family obtain less education …

adulthood in worse health and with less education than wealthier children, these results indicate that a key determinant of …

We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …

We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy …