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Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...
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assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …
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emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …
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education program. We follow participants into late midlife as well as their children into adulthood. Impacts on the original … participants and their children generate substantial benefits. Access to life-cycle data enables us to evaluate the accuracy of …
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early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within … analyze new long-run life-cycle data collected for iconic programs when participants are middle-aged and their children are in … their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare …
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