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 …

parents directly control their children's internet access with parental control software. Third, the strength of the cue …This paper explores how parental information and control can influence children's internet use in Chile. We designed … and implemented a set of randomized interventions whereby approximately 7700 parents were sent weekly SMSs messages with …

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 …

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

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

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

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