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We present the results of a randomised experiment evaluating the effects of a home-based parenting programme delivered by cadres in China’s Family Planning Commission (FPC)—the former enforcers of the one-child policy.

We show the importance of Berkson errors for demand estimation with nonseparable unobserved heterogeneity.

Estimates of how health affects employment vary considerably. We assess how different methods and health measures impact estimates of the impact of health on employment using a unified framework for the US and England.

We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the British Household Panel Survey.

We present a comprehensive evaluation of the health impacts of the introduction and expansion of a large non-contributory health insurance program in Mexico, the Seguro Popular (SP).

Fiscal Studies Special Issue: The COVID‐19 Economic Crisis, Volume 41, Issue 3

In this paper, we estimate the effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on mental health in the UK. We use longitudinal micro data for the UK over the period 2009–20 to control for pre‐existing trends in mental health and construct individual‐specific counterfactual predictions for April 2020, against which the COVID‐19 mental health outcomes can be assessed.

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1–12 in India, based on the Young Lives Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0–5 who are at risk of developmental deficits.

We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart.

This article estimates the importance of temptation for consumption smoothing and asset accumulation in a life‐cycle model.