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

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of
educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The …

In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-
generation models of fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities …

It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis,
weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising …

A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related
in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger …

This study examines the effects of universal Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) on
child development and children's later life outcomes. Using meta-analytical techniques, we …

Mothering While Black examines the complex lives of the African American middle class—in
particular, black mothers and the strategies they use to raise their children to maintain class …

This chapter seeks to set out what economists have learned about the effects of early
childhood influences on later life outcomes, and about ameliorating the effects of negative …

Using large longitudinal survey data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, this article
estimates the relationship between maternal time inputs and early child development. We …

Greenwood, and Aranth Seshadri 2002; and Roland Bénabou 2002). The implicit
assumption in this approach is that inputs into the production of skills at different stages of …