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 identfication of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining … educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …

among youths. Using a difference-in-difference-indifferences estimation strategy we find that around the age of 30 the …

Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our …We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … results show substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate …

not by parents, most of whom were already working. Beneficiary children saw sustained gains in height-for-age and weight …This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their … used a lottery to assign children to limited public daycare openings. Winning the lottery translated to a 34 percent …

) in Macedonia offering poor households cash transfers conditional on having their children attending secondary school. The …

households, conditional on having their children attending secondary school. The recipient of the transfer is randomized across … municipalities, with payments targeted to either the mother or the father of the child. We show that the gender of the recipient has …

-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan) and academic performance. OLS results indicate that leaner children perform slightly better in school …