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 examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in
Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of …

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 …

Well-being (life satisfaction or happiness) is a latent variable that is impossible to observe
directly. Moreover, it does not have a unit of measurement. Hence, survey questionnaires …

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 …

Intergenerational income transmission varies across commuting zones (CZs). I investigate
whether children's educational outcomes help to explain this variation. Differences among …

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 …

The association between test scores in primary school and college attendance, and how this
association differs by socioeconomic status (SES), remains an open question in low-and …

What drives the dynamics of the racial wealth gap? We answer this question using a
dynamic stochastic general equilibrium heterogeneous-agents model. Our calibrated model …

This paper depicts the evolution of gaps in academic performance between native and
immigrant background students as they progress from primary to secondary education. We …