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 …

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 …

-American children in the 1960s. We discuss the design of the experiment, compromises in and adjustments to the randomization protocol …

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

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

assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …