Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … patterns in time spent with children by parents within the United States. Second, we interpret our results in a Beckerian … thought to be critical to the development of "quality" children who will become productive adults. This paper has three goals …

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 …

) increases growth rates of national income. This paper begins by confirming those findings in an analysis involving more … by which education quality appears to improve per capita income levels is through shifting the level of the production … a country's rate of technological progress (very likely). Mortality rates complement income levels as indicators of …

reviews a large body of empirical work investigating whether these programs make a difference for children's development, and … life outcomes. This suggests that early childhood programs might play a significant role in helping children realize their …

market-oriented system may be one cause of the growing disparities; rising income inequality is another potential culprit …

analysis reveals some striking similarities in the qualitative effects of children across countries, but also sharp differences …