comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

Parental investments as well as school quality are important determinants of children's later-life outcomes. In this … paper, we shed light on what determines parental investments and study how parents perceive the returns to parental time …. Using a representative sample of 1,962 parents in England, we document that parents perceive the returns to 3 hours of …

, cognitive and socio-emotional skills. We observe children from age 1 to age 7. We assume that, at each age, these factors …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million … children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background …, prior child cognition and health, and child investments. We use income and local prices to control for the endogeneity of …

achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common (PISA) scale. We then estimate the share of children not achieving basic …

stimulation program in Colombia, whose target population were low-income households with children aged 12 to 24 months at baseline …-child interactions and other maternal behaviors that foster the development of children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills. We show …