We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million … children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background … development …

We also find that for the whole sample of applicants, those in the treatment group have 0.315 more years of education …

Parental investments as well as school quality are important determinants of children's later-life outcomes. In this … productive if children attend higher quality schools. Perceived returns do not differ with the child's initial human capital or …

rolled out nationwide and provides additional resources for materials and new staff, did not benefit children's development …, improved the quality of teaching and raised children's cognition, language and school readiness …

-child interactions and other maternal behaviors that foster the development of children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills. We show … investments on child development. We describe our framework in three steps. First, we discuss the construction of the survey … of child development. We apply our framework to a unique dataset collected as part of an 18-month-long parenting …

and 1,460 children younger than 1 year of age were assessed at baseline. The interventions were also complemented with … training, supervision and coaching of FAMI program facilitators. We assessed program effects on children's nutritional status …, and on cognitive and socio-emotional development; as well as on parental practices. The interventions had a positive and …

This paper uses the data on child development collected around the evaluation of a nursery program to estimate the … details of the process of human development. We model development as made of three latent factors, reflecting health …, cognitive and socio-emotional skills. We observe children from age 1 to age 7. We assume that, at each age, these factors …

in rural Odisha, India. This is a group for whom highly-gendered norms around marriage, mobility and work are likely to …

two districts of Uttar Pradesh, India. The net profit generated ignoring labour costs, gives rise to a small positive rate …