This article reviews recent developments in the econometrics of early childhood human
capital and investments. We start with a discussion about the lack of cardinality in test …

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 …

Concerns about the breadth of the US income distribution and limited intergenerational
mobility have led to a focus on educational achievement gaps by socio-economic status …

This paper models decisions to apply to and attend charter schools in Boston using a
generalized Roy selection framework linking preferences to the achievement gains …

Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps
in educational achievement by socioeconomic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT …

Economists often use test scores to measure a student's performance or an adult's human
capital. These scores reflect nontrivial decisions about how to measure and scale student …

I use unique child-level panel data from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam, four developing
countries with widely differing levels of student achievement, to study the extent to which …

Since 1990, US policymakers have worked to close gaps in academic achievement by
income and race (eg with school finance reform and school accountability systems) even as …

We measure the black–white achievement gap from kindergarten through seventh grade on
an interval scale created by tying each grade–test score combination to average eventual …

This paper applies the concentration index to estimate socioeconomic-related inequality in
language skills among children aged 5 to 15, using longitudinal data from Peru. We find the …