interventions. We show that even a modest transfer of family income to families at ages 5-6 would substantially increase children …We develop a new estimator for the process of children's skill formation in which children's skills endogenously … United States, we estimate the technology of skill formation, the process of parental investments in children, and the adult …

influence of parents wanes. Nevertheless, parents may continue to exert leverage by shaping their children's peer groups. We … parental inputs and peers, and where parents can affect the peer group by restricting who their children can interact with. We …As children reach adolescence, peer interactions become increasingly central to their development, whereas the direct …

-of-kindergarten inequality than classroom quality. Higher quality classrooms and home investments have a larger effect on children entering … income variables and experimental results from the Tennessee STAR experiment. Finally, we find that the estimated classroom …

A recent and growing area of research applies latent factor models to study the development of children's skills. Some …