will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

We develop a new estimator for the process of children's skill formation in which children's skills endogenously … United States, we estimate the technology of skill formation, the process of parental investments in children, and the adult … children with lower existing skills, suggesting the optimal targeting of interventions to disadvantaged children. Our estimates …

their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare … intergenerational effects on their children. A study of focused home-visiting programs that target parents enables us to isolate a …This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

of lifetime resources (income and wealth) motivated by economic theory that account for generational differences in life … performance of proxy measures is poor. Parents' expected lifetime resources are stronger predictors of many important child … outcomes (including children's own expected lifetime resources and education) than the income measures traditionally used in …

analysis reveals some striking similarities in the qualitative effects of children across countries, but also sharp differences …