This article reviews the global health and economic consequences of the 1918 influenza
pandemic, with a particular focus on topics that have seen a renewed interest because of …

Children's experiences during early childhood are critical for their cognitive and
socioemotional development, two key dimensions of human capital. However, children from …

How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes?
Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social …

" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

That prenatal events can have life-long consequences is now well established.
Nevertheless, research on the fetal origins hypothesis is flourishing and has expanded to …

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on
the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps …

We examine heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care program in Germany
by exploiting variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large expansion …

This article distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development
and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of …

This study examines whether the chief executive officer's (CEO's) poverty experience has an
impact on firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR). We find that firms' CSR performance …

We examine the impact of a positive and policy-driven change in economic resources
available in utero and during childhood. We focus on the introduction of the Food Stamp …