Families who live in poverty face disadvantages that can hinder their children's development
in many ways, write Greg Duncan, Katherine Magnuson, and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal. As …

This chapter explores the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical
and empirical perspectives. Examples of outcomes considered include general consumption …

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 …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

Families, primarily female‐headed minority households with children, living in high‐poverty
public housing projects in five US cities were offered housing vouchers by lottery in the …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and
between child health and education, but only some of them have been explored in the …

We quantify the lasting effects of childhood health and economic circumstances on adult
health, employment and socioeconomic status, using data from a birth cohort that has been …

The chronic underinvestment in higher education has serious ramifications for both
individuals and society. Winner, Best Book in Education, 2009 PROSE Awards, Professional …

In this article we assess and compare long-term adult socioeconomic status impacts from
having experienced psychological and physical health problems in childhood. To do so, we …

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 …