This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original … participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and … lower levels of participation in crime, compared with the children of untreated participants. Impacts are especially …

internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

the age ranges that best predict important human capital outcomes of children. The predictive power of parental resources … traditional snapshot proxies for lifetime incomes based on income flows at certain age windows in predicting child outcomes … used. We also find that the financial resources of parents compensate in part for nonmonetary inputs to child human capital …

-defined marginal policy changes with IV estimates of the return to schooling. Some marginal policy changes inducing students into …

forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of …