This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive
and noncognitive skills. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at …

This paper estimates models of the evolution of cognitive and noncognitive skills and
explores the role of family environments in shaping these skills at different stages of the life …

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 …

Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the
origins of inequality and excellence. It draws on and contributes to personality psychology …

This article evaluates the effects of maternal vs. alternative care providers' time inputs on
children's cognitive development using the sample of single mothers in the National …

This paper considers methods for modelling the production function for cognitive
achievement in a way that captures theoretical notions that child development is a …

Greenwood, and Aranth Seshadri 2002; and Roland Bénabou 2002). The implicit
assumption in this approach is that inputs into the production of skills at different stages of …

This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of
recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1–12 in India,
based on the Young Lives Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0–5 who are at …

A growing literature reports significant socio-economic gaps in investments in the human
capital of young children. Because the returns to these investments may be huge, parenting …