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 …

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 …

outcomes (including children's own expected lifetime resources and education) than the income measures traditionally used in … of lifetime resources (income and wealth) motivated by economic theory that account for generational differences in life … wage income and disposable income measured over narrow windows of age that are used to proxy lifetime wealth. The …

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

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

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

the age ranges that best predict important human capital outcomes of children. The predictive power of parental resources … traditional snapshot proxies for lifetime incomes based on income flows at certain age windows in predicting child outcomes … used. We also find that the financial resources of parents compensate in part for non-monetary inputs to child human …