resources for schooling from early years through to adolescence. Recent research has looked at how parents respond to children …Many countries around the world are making substantial and increasing public investments in children by providing … finds that parents reduce their own efforts as schooling improves, dampening the efficiency of government expenditure …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identfication of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …