In this paper we estimate production functions for cognition and health throughout four stages of childhood from 5 …-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production … function include parental background, prior child cognition and health and child investments. We allow investments to be …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production … functions include parental background, prior child cognition and health, and child investments, which are taken as endogenous …

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 …, prior child cognition and health, and child investments. We use income and local prices to control for the endogeneity of …

In this paper we estimate production functions for cognition and health throughout four stages of childhood from 5 …-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production … function include parental background, prior child cognition and health and child investments. We allow investments to be …

free choice over their hours of work. We then consider fixed costs of work, the complications introduced by the benefits … system, dynamic aspects of labour supply and we place the analysis in the context of the family. The key conclusion of this … suggests that there may be significant welfare costs of taxation, although much of this seems to be a result of shifting income …