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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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This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
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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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early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …
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A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …
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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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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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This paper investigates four topics. (1) It examines the different roles played by the propensity score (probability of selection) in matching, instrumental variable and control functions methods. (2) It contrasts the roles of exclusion restrictions in matching and selection models. (3) It...
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small-sample randomized early childhood education stimulation intervention targeting stunted children living in the poor … original sample is 127 stunted children between 9 and 24 months old. Our study is able to track and interview 75% of the … disadvantaged children living in poor countries around the world …
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assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …
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