will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

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 …

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 …

of lifetime resources (income and wealth) motivated by economic theory that account for generational differences in life … performance of proxy measures is poor. Parents' expected lifetime resources are stronger predictors of many important child … outcomes (including children's own expected lifetime resources and education) than the income measures traditionally used in …

that the economic circumstances of parents matter: increases in the fractions of children with absent fathers and working …This paper examines how child maltreatment is affected by the economic circumstances of parents. 'Child maltreatment …' encompasses a wide range of behaviors that adversely affect children. It includes neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and other …

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …

mechanisms influence family investments in children, we evaluate the extent to which these mechanisms also explain other …