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

This chapter reviews the literature on intergenerational mobility. While our review is
centered around the large empirical literature on this topic, we also give a brief discussion of …

The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting
consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual …

While there is widespread agreement in societies like the UK that every child has the right to
a secure childhood and the opportunity to develop to their full potential, this does not match …

Many schools in large urban districts have more applicants than seats. Centralized school
assignment algorithms ration seats at over‐subscribed schools using randomly assigned …

This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on
outcomes of children and their caregivers over the course of seven years after enrollment …

How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right
and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across the globe to reveal …

Using comparable data for 24 countries since the 1970s, we document gender convergence
in schooling, employment and earnings, marriage delay, and the accompanying decline in …

Importance Although a growing number of studies have reported negative associations of
the COVID-19 pandemic with academic performance among school-aged children, less is …

Knowledge about causal effects is essential for building useful theories and designing
effective interventions. The preferred design for learning about causal effects is randomized …