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 …

We present the results of a novel early childhood intervention in which disadvantaged 3-4-year- old children were … evaluated a shortened summer version of the program (2 months) in which children were treated immediately prior to the start of …

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 …

We analyze the effect of Colombia's ambitious "Free Housing" program on children's educational outcomes. The program … lotteries and linking applicants to their children. We find that public housing increases high school graduation by seven …. Their children also attend better schools and live in neighborhoods with less crime …

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