This article compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for
disadvantaged children within and across generations. Instead of conducting a standard …

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 …

An important class of structural models studies the determinants of skill formation and the
optimal timing of interventions. In this paper, I provide new identification results for these …

Recent research has demonstrated the importance of flexibly controlling for covariates in
instrumental variables estimation. In this article we study the finite sample and asymptotic …

Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent-reported
measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of …

Parental behavior is paramount to child health and skill formation, explaining a significant
portion of differences in developmental outcomes. However, little is known regarding the …

We use data from a randomized early childhood education program to estimate the
production technology of early life skills. Estimates indicate that, for more disadvantaged …

Childhood is a critical period for development of mental health: episodes of mental illness
during this time often recur in adulthood but early intervention can be highly effective at …

Recent literature has shown that skills are not only essential for the development of
successful adults, but also that they are malleable and prone to be affected by many …

We address the estimation of factor-augmented panel data models using observed
measurements to proxy for unobserved factors or loadings and explore the use of internal …