This paper aims to investigate the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years … examine the pattern of child health inequality. The results of the anthropometric measures show that 1.5% of children in …

children. The association between maternal birth weight and child school test scores corresponds to 80 percent of the … outcomes of their children, and when controlling for parental education and economic resources. Child test scores are also …

investment in children. A key to understanding the data patterns is to document the sources underlying the observed inequalities … associated with enriched parent-child interactions and improved vocabulary, math, and social-emotional skills for the children … reducing socioeconomic gaps in children’s skills, but that simple informational policies may not be sufficient …

Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6 …, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with … maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …