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Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children
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Evidence on the effects of early environments on child, adolescent, and adult achievement and how early inputs strongly affect the productivity of later inputs is summarized.Abstract:
This paper summarizes evidence on the effects of early environments on child, adolescent, and adult achievement. Life cycle skill formation is a dynamic process in which early inputs strongly affect the productivity of later inputs.read more
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A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety
Terrie E. Moffitt,Louise Arseneault,Daniel W. Belsky,Nigel Dickson,Robert J. Hancox,HonaLee Harrington,Renate Houts,Richie Poulton,Brent W. Roberts,Stephen A. Ross,Malcolm R. Sears,W. Murray Thomson,Avshalom Caspi +12 more
TL;DR: Following a cohort of 1,000 children from birth to the age of 32 y, it is shown that childhood self-control predicts physical health, substance dependence, personal finances, and criminal offending outcomes, following a gradient of self- control.
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The United Nations Development Programme
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Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and the Childhood Roots of Health Disparities: Building a New Framework for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
TL;DR: A scientific consensus is emerging that the origins of adult disease are often found among developmental and biological disruptions occurring during the early years of life as mentioned in this paper, and that these early experiences can affect adult health in 2 ways: cumulative damage over time or by the biological embedding of adversities during sensitive developmental periods.
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Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use administrative records on the incomes of more than 40 million children and their parents to describe three features of intergenerational mobility in the United States: the joint distribution of parent and child income at the national level, the conditional expectation of child income given parent income, and the factors correlated with upward mobility.
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The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
TL;DR: It is found that moving to a lower-poverty neighborhood when young (before age 13) increases college attendance and earnings and reduces single parenthood rates, and moving as an adolescent has slightly negative impacts.
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Equality of Educational Opportunity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of equity and excellence in education in the context of the 1968 Equalization of EdUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY (EOW) campaign.
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From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
TL;DR: From Neurons to Neighborhoods as discussed by the authors presents the evidence about "brain wiring" and how children learn to learn to speak, think, and regulate their behavior, and examines the effect of the climate-family, child care, community-within which the child grows.
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Handbook of the economics of education
TL;DR: The Handbooks in the Economics of Education as discussed by the authors provides a broad overview of the state of the art in the field of education and its economic and social effects, with a focus on the value of an education.
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The productivity argument for investing in young children.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children and show that there is no equity-efficiency trade-off for such investment, for any investment.