worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health … interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests that both types of interventions may benefit not only child health …

worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health … interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests that both types of interventions may benefit not only child health …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … more effective because we do not find any detrimental long-term effects for exposed children from higher socioeconomic … backgrounds. In contrast, exposed children from low socioeconomic backgrounds have significantly worse labor market outcomes as …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … more effective because we do not find any detrimental long-term effects for exposed children from higher socioeconomic … backgrounds. In contrast, exposed children from low socioeconomic backgrounds have significantly worse labor market outcomes as …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … more effective because we do not find any detrimental long-term effects for exposed children from higher socioeconomic … backgrounds. In contrast, exposed children from low socioeconomic backgrounds have significantly worse labor market outcomes as …

intergenerational mobility if parents at the bottom of the income distribution invest significantly less in their children’s human … capital. I consider whether public investments in children can potentially offset the inequality of private investments … period 2000–2009, I find that increases in spending on health are most strongly associated with reductions in the importance …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. We interpret … of the long-term effects of early-life shocks on children. These estimates should only be interpreted as reduced … lower bound of the biological effect. For exposed children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds, there are no detrimental …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies …

This Element reviews what we know about parental investments and children's human capital in low …-to-middle-income countries (LMICs). First, it presents definitions and a simple analytical framework; then discusses determinants of children …'s human capital in the form of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills and physical and mental health; then reviews estimates …