their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare … intergenerational effects on their children. A study of focused home-visiting programs that target parents enables us to isolate a …This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within …

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 …

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide …. Finally, we conclude that income is a mechanism linking parent's and children's schooling, that can partly explain the …

This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original … participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and … lower levels of participation in crime, compared with the children of untreated participants. Impacts are especially …

We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the … labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending … mainly to be driven by boys, students from families with a low educational level and students attending schools in urban …

parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses' siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …

parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …

importance of credit constraints in forming skills is examined. There is little support for the claim that untargeted income … will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations – parents … and their children. In this study we use a Swedish data set which enables us link individual measures of lifetime earnings … based on income data from two generations accurately predicts earnings persistence beyond two generations. We also do a …