from a birth cohort that has been followed from birth into middle age. We find, controlling for parents' incomes …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and … effects on educational attainment and initial adult health. Taken together with earlier findings that poorer children enter …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …

for low income students and males. Estimates suggest that entering kindergarten early may have a detrimental effect on …

Although mental disorders are common among children, we know little about their long term effects on child outcomes …. This paper examines U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression … representative samples of children from both countries. Second, we focus on "screeners" that were administered to all children in our …

their children (whether elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data … fact that parents who were self-employed before retirement are more likely to live with their children, the fact that … their children and the fact that parents are more likely to live with less educated children constitute evidence in favor of …

the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has … father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been empowered. This transformation coincided with … rise in relative earnings of wives increased competition between spouses for the love and affection of their children while …

importance of credit constraints in forming skills is examined. There is little support for the claim that untargeted income … will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …