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 …

scalable intervention in India, that affected developmental outcomes in the short-term, including cognition (0.36 SD p=0 ….005), receptive language (0.26 SD p=0.03) and expressive language (0.21 SD p=0.03). After 4.5 years, when the children were on average …

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

Children's experiences during early childhood are critical for their cognitive and socio-emotional development, two key … dimensions of human capital. However, children from low income backgrounds often grow up lacking stimulation and basic … development and use it as an organizing tool to review some of the empirical evidence on early childhood research. We then present …

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 …

In this paper we examine how an education policy intervention - the introduction of a comprehensive school in Sweden …, child ability and long-term adult outcomes. We show that extra education results in significant gains in skills among … children, but the effects on long-term health are overall negligible. However, we demonstrate that the schooling reform had …

dynamics differ substantially by gender, education, and origin. Men face lower volatility than women, but their earnings growth …

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