regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … household behavior have failed to account for the differential behavior of parents with respect to skill formation of their … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education …

This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children …

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

the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we measure parental investments by considering the time parents spend with … development, but it is still not clear whether parents respond to changes across time in their child's skills and health. Using … endogeneity issues, we find that parents reinforce for differences in their child's socio-emotional skills, compensate for changes …

estimates rule out large effects for children whose parents have a strong preference for sending them to early child care. …While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of …