Children's experiences during early childhood are critical for their cognitive and
socioemotional development, two key dimensions of human capital. However, children from …

The foundations for successful child development are established in early childhood. Two
main policy approaches for strengthening these foundations have been subsidized …

Leveraging the Tennessee STAR class size experiment, we show that Black students
randomly assigned to at least one Black teacher in grades K–3 are 9 percentage points (13 …

We examine heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care program in Germany
by exploiting variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large expansion …

This article distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development
and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of …

We develop a theory of parent‐child relations that rationalizes the choice between
alternative parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind, 1967). Parents maximize an objective …

We show that tenth-grade teacher expectations affect students' likelihood of college
completion. Our approach leverages a unique feature of a nationally representative dataset …

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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 …

Recent research demonstrates that the effects of adverse early childhood environments
persist over a lifetime (Knudsen et al. 2006). Substantial gaps between the environments of …