This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within … analyze new long-run life-cycle data collected for iconic programs when participants are middle-aged and their children are in … their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare …

survey. In terms of financial transfers over all dimensions of investment, the family acts as a net equalizer in response to … early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly … linked to inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when … children enter school. Parenting matters, and the true measure of child advantage and disadvantage is the quality of parenting …

rationalize the evidence and unify the treatment effect and family influence literatures. The evidence on the empirical and policy … features of successful families and interventions that shape skills at all stages of childhood. The next wave of family studies …

rationalize the evidence and unify the treatment effect and family influence literatures. The evidence on the empirical and policy … features of successful families and interventions to shape skills at all stages of childhood. The next wave of family studies …