, grandfathers matter for income transmission, above and beyond their effect on fathers' income. Second, the socio-economic status of …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

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 and imperfect measures. Using a dynamic la- tent factor …. Moreover, we find that the marginal productivity of early investments is substantially higher for children with lower existing …

). The results suggest that on average, parents invest no more in terms of educational expenditure in children who have … acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by parents may respond to non-cognitive skills early … in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural …

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original … participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and … lower levels of participation in crime, compared with the children of untreated participants. Impacts are especially …

The rising cost of college tuition and the accompanying investment parents often make have received considerable …, their distribution across children, and their relationship with later cash transfers, there has been little empirical work … supplement to the Health and Retirement Study, we find that parents typically invest differentially in the schooling of siblings …