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 …

1959 and 1979 the income available to children tended to follow the same …children and adults are relatively unchanged when estimates of the value of …children since 1979. Income available to children fell because households …

This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there …

children, may also alter the incentives faced by men to have children out of wedlock. We find that strengthening child support … and those with a higher propensity to invest in children. Thus, policies that compel men to pay child support may affect …