Early Childhood Human Capital and Development

Todd Schoellman

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016, vol. 8, issue 3, 145-74

Abstract: A growing literature stresses the importance of early childhood human capital. I ask whether variation in early childhood investments can help explain cross-country income differences. I provide new empirical evidence: the adult outcomes of refugees are independent of age at arrival to the United States up to age six, despite dramatic improvements in income and environment upon arrival. A standard model is consistent with this finding if parents but not country are important for early childhood development. This finding limits the mechanisms for generating cross-country early childhood human capital differences. I also provide suggestive evidence on parental inputs.

JEL-codes: I24 I26 I32 J13 J15 J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
Note: DOI: 10.1257/mac.20150117
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