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 identfication of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …

the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs … significantly, disadvantaged American children living in much more challenging circumstances, and the role of public policy not as …

forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60 % of …

Using microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study, we assess 'time crunch' for families with children in Canada, Germany … well-being of parents and children. We present cross-country comparisons of 'total available adult hours' under different … families, we nonetheless find significant numbers of lower-income families in which parents work very long hours in the paid …

employed. While income is a vital input to well-being, it is probably not the best measure, particularly of children's well … income exists. The principal goal of this paper is to begin to fill this gap. We compare children cross-nationally in terms …, children at the bottom of the Canadian income distribution are more likely to be better off than children at the bottom of the …

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …