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 …

reduced crime rates of the targeted generation and their children by comparable amounts. We attribute these outcomes to …

choices over the life cycle. We start by analyzing the theoretical impact of income changes on consumption - highlighting the … contributions, distinguishing between papers that use only income data and those that use both income and consumption data. The … and identify the income process or the information set of the individuals. Second, one can assume that the income process …

heterogeneity. In contrast to simpler models that attribute all income fluctuations to shocks, our framework disentangles …

decomposing income shocks into group aggregate and idiosyncratic components, allowing us to measure the extent to which each … intergenerational structure of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We find that over 60% of shocks to household income are potentially …

. The effect is mainly accounted for by children from relatively higher income backgrounds. Based on the CLASS instrument we … document that quality of teacher-student interactions is positively correlated with the performance of low income students …-performing schools in Chile. The intervention improved performance substantially for the first cohort of students, but not the second …