-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

This paper studies the interaction between parental and public inputs in children's skill formation. We perform a … significantly for children of all backgrounds. There is, however, complete fade-out for children with highly educated parents. Given … positive long-run effects for children with low-educated parents, the treatment reduces child skill gaps across parents …

children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …

. This closes one-third of the gap between children with median and bottom quartile family income, and is about 80 percent as … large as model programs such as Perry Preschool. The long-term impact for disadvantaged children is large despite “fadeout …