Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment: Introduction

Marco Francesconi and James Heckman

No 9977, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper introduces the EJ Symposium on Child Development by reviewing the literature and placing the contributions of the papers in the Symposium in the context of a vibrant literature.

Keywords: child development; education; dynamic complementarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H43 I21 I24 J13 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2016-05
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Published - published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(596), F1-F27

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