Transfers to Households with Children and Child Development

Abstract

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Early, Late or Never? When Does Parental Education Impact Child Outcomes?

“…Similarly, Del Boca et al . () use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and its Child Development Supplements to examine the impact of different potential policy interventions on child development, modelling how policies affect household behaviour and subsequent child ‘quality’. The findings suggest that policies that distort the input mix into the child quality production function away from parental time investments (and towards investment in child‐related goods) are less effective.…”

The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility

“…The literature is much less clear in distinguishing the effect of income by source or in distinguishing pure income effects from substitution effects induced by changing wages and prices (including child care subsidies). If some part of a family income change is due to changes in labor supply, this will have implications for child development (see, e.g., Bernal, 2008; Bernal and Keane, 2010, 2011; Del Boca et al, 2012; Gayle et al, 2013). Higher levels of parental permanent income are associated with higher levels of parental education, better schools, more capable parents, better peers, more engaged parenting, etc.…”

Child Development and Parental Investment: Introduction

“…(), Del Boca et al . () and Carneiro and Ginja () in this issue explicitly introduce parental time as determinants of child development. Del Bono et al .…”

“…The recent empirical literature suggests that unrestricted income transfers are a weak reed for promoting child skills and the articles assembled here support this proposition (see especially Del Boca et al . ). Before turning to a discussion of the individual articles, it is useful to review the findings of the recent literature.…”