4) Public & parental investments in children’s skills formation w M. Gensowski, D. Bleses, A. Højen, P. Dale & L. Justice
Preschool RCT led to heterog. effects across later par. inv. and school quality. We also find cross-productivity between different skill domains.
https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2024/11/04/jhr.0422-12259R2
Preschool RCT led to heterog. effects across later par. inv. and school quality. We also find cross-productivity between different skill domains.
https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2024/11/04/jhr.0422-12259R2
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Our model accounting for self-selection across neighborhoods explains most of intergen. mobility differences between NBHs. https://www.nber.org/papers/w33035
We develop and estimate measures of lifetime resources + identify the effects of parents’ resources on child outcomes through policy shocks at different childhood ages.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33023
In low inc families, mobility relates to whether children have a job. As parents' inc⬆️, educ becomes more important. For top-5%, capital inc. is key.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5009798
Increasing mobility was due to large compulsory schooling reforms that led children from low educ families to complete lower/upper secondary sch.
Reversal is due to affluent families driving almost all of educ expansion at college / uni level the past 2-3 decades