A September NBER working paper by Randall Akee, E. Jane Costello, and colleagues describes the power of cash to offset poverty's effects on child personality and behavior. The work, based on the Great Smoky Mountains Study cohort, caught the attention of the Bloomberg View column and the Washington Post Wonkblog. NBER Working Paper (http://www.nber.org/papers/w21562.pdf), Bloomberg article ( http://bv.ms/1jTCBPa ), Washington Post blog (http://wapo.st/1P0H3YV).
