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 …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production … functions include parental background, prior child cognition and health, and child investments, which are taken as endogenous …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …

-life outcomes. These studies have found limited impact of supplementary programs on children's cognitive skills, but sustained … effects on personality traits. We examine how a positive change in unearned household income affects children's emotional and … financial wellbeing on children's emotional and behavioral health and positive personality trait development. Moreover, we find …

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is …

-of-kindergarten inequality than classroom quality. Higher quality classrooms and home investments have a larger effect on children entering …