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 …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

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

students. However, very little empirical work has to date been completed on this topic. This paper provides the first empirical … every third, fourth, and fifth grader in a large school district over four years, we match students' test score gains and … substantial evidence that higher grading standards benefit students. We find that these effects are not uniform: High …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

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 …

better than third generation immigrants. Among first generation immigrants, the earlier the arrival, the better the students … tend to perform. These patterns of findings hold for both Asian and Hispanic students, and suggest a general pattern of …

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 …