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 …

This article reviews recent significant progress made in developing estimation and inference
methods for nonlinear models in the presence of mismeasured data that may or may not …

This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that
synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches …

This paper quantifies and aggregates the multiple lifetime benefits of an influential high-
quality early-childhood program with outcomes measured through midlife. Guided by …

CHU identify the causal effect of education on health and health-related behaviors. We
determine the role played by cognitive, noncognitive, and health endowments measured in …

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 …

This paper estimates the effects of personality traits and IQ on lifetime earnings of the men
and women of the Terman study, a high-IQ US sample. Age-by-age earnings profiles allow a …

This paper quantifies and aggregates the multiple lifetime benefits of an influential high-
quality early childhood program with outcomes measured through midlife. Guided by …

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 …

This paper develops robust models for estimating and interpreting treatment effects arising
from both ordered and unordered multi-stage decision problems. Identification is secured …