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

induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …

internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

the relationship between the incomes of parents and future earnings of their children. We focus on two different measures …This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …

This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there …