We examine the effects of a quasi-experimental unconditional household income transfer on
child emotional and behavioral health and personality traits. Using longitudinal data, we find …

This study presents estimates of the effect of parental income on children's cognitive, social,
and emotional development. The effect of current income is small, especially when income …

Past research suggests that increasing the incomes of single mothers will bring
integenerational benefits. However, some sources of income may be more beneficial to …

A positive relationship between income and child outcomes has been observed in data from
numerous countries. A key question concerns the extent to which this association represents …

Social scientists do not agree on the size and nature of the causal impacts of parental
income on children's achievement. We revisit this issue using a set of welfare and …

Economists explain the positive relationship between parental income and children's
outcomes using an investment model. Building on work in psychology and sociology, this …

We examine how income is associated with the home environments and the cognitive and
behavioral development of pre-school children using data from a birth cohort study of …

Prior research suggests that poverty can be detrimental to low‐income children's
development. Is this relation capturing the effects of poverty or the effects of other …

We examine the role an exogenous increase in household income, due to a government
transfer unrelated to household characteristics, plays in children's long-run outcomes …

Within-child associations between family income and child externalizing and internalizing
problems were examined using longitudinal data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care …