We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our … results show substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate …

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 identfication of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining … educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …

more individual decision power,especially for women. Moreover, health and income have independent effects on the …