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 …

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 …

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 nonmonetary inputs to child human capital …

The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender … children. In contrast, there are no penalties for men who were headstrong or for women who were dependent. While other child …

paper uses panel data for two different cohorts that follow students from high school through college and into their post … minority students are substantial, contrary to the anecdotes in play in the media and in the courts …

small-sample randomized early childhood education stimulation intervention targeting stunted children living in the poor … original sample is 127 stunted children between 9 and 24 months old. Our study is able to track and interview 75% of the … statistically significant effects on income and schooling; the treatment group had 43% higher hourly wages and 37% higher earnings …

education program. We follow participants into late midlife as well as their children into adulthood. Impacts on the original … participants and their children generate substantial benefits. Access to life-cycle data enables us to evaluate the accuracy of …