transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this …

The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children …

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 …

to either learn from him (if children act as teachers then adults' cost of learning the skill falls) or lean on him (if … children's human capital substitutes for that of adults in household production then adults' benefit of learning the skill … falls). I exploit regional variation in two shocks to children's human capital and examine the effect on adults. The rapid …

Parents may have important effects on their children, but little work in economics explores whether children …'s schooling opportunities crowd out or encourage parents' investment in children. We analyze data from the Head Start Impact Study …, which granted randomly-chosen preschool-aged children the opportunity to attend Head Start. We find that Head Start causes a …

-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by … regarding violence against women. An increase in education has also reduced the number of desired children by women and …

extensively for individual, family, peer, and teacher characteristics to account for the endogeneity of peer group formation. We …