home and parental mental health can have notable impacts on skill development in children that may affect the stock of … abuse on children born to mothers in the initial cohort of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a national … household survey of high school students aged 14-22 in 1979. We follow 1587 children aged 1-5 in 1987, observing them throughout …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …

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 … investments affect cognitive development at all ages, but more so for younger children. Investments also have an impact on health …

effective at raising non-cognitive skills. Head Start is also more effective for children with less-educated mothers. Centers … that draw more children from center-based preschool have smaller effects, suggesting that cross-center differences in …

An estimated 20 million children born each year are at risk of brain damage from in utero iodine deficiency, the only … improvements in cognitive ability attributable to the intervention by assessing whether children who benefited from IOC in utero … exhibit higher rates of grade progression at ages 10 to 14 relative to siblings and older and younger children in the district …

-five children in Turkey. I find gains in health and human capital among age-eligible children of both sexes. However, educational … mother works outside the home and in the number of young children in the household, and are absent if an elder sister is … present. My results suggest reducing morbidity among preschool children may have the added benefit of improving educational …