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 …

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

In this article we examine the change in the mix of income and benefits that older adults receive as they age, with a … focus on older women. Our study is a crossnational comparison of five OECD countries using the Luxemburg Income Study … database. We investigate the change of private income and social benefits following synthetic cohorts for two decades. Our …

children. For all of the fourteen countries in the combined sample, children in migrant families have greater market-income … poverty rates and greater disposable income poverty rates than do children in native-born families by a factor of about 2 to 1 …The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and the databases underlying the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions …