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

In this paper we study the process of children's skill formation. The identification of this process is challenging … because children's skills are observed only through arbitrarily scaled and imperfect measures. Using a dynamic la- tent factor …. Moreover, we find that the marginal productivity of early investments is substantially higher for children with lower existing …

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 …

hard to identify, the results suggest that life is more formed by individual endowments and considerations for children …

that constraints in both time and (non-)cognitive skills of the parents restrict their choice. We find that children … model, we investigate which parenting styles can be observed in the data and how parenting styles are related to parents … children from different socioeconomic origins. …