Economics of Child Well-Being

Abstract

Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S

Sex, drugs, and ADHD: The effects of ADHD pharmacological treatment on teens' risky behaviors

“…IQ, memory) and noncognitive skills (e.g. self-control, patience, and time preference) (Conti and Heckman (2014)). Due to their genetic condition, children who suffer from ADHD have a relatively low initial stock of noncognitive skills.…”

“…The literature on child development indicates that gaps in abilities that form early in life persist into adulthood and can explain a large array of differentials in adult outcomes. Conti and Heckman (2014) provide an extensive review of the empirical evidence on the effects of investment in the two dimensions of child human capital, cognitive and noncognitive skills, on educational attainment, asocial and risky behaviors, and health. Heckman et al (2006) find that both cognitive and noncognitive abilities affect wages, schooling, work experience, occupational choice, and participation in a range of adolescent risky behaviors.…”

The Impact of Expanding Access to Early Childhood Services in Rural Indonesia: Evidence from Two Cohorts of Children

“…Moffitt et al, 2011) later in their adult years. Healthy child development is an enabler of human capability allowing children to reach physical maturity and participate productively in economic, social and civic life (G. Conti andJ. Heckman, 2012, Amartya Sen, 1999).…”

Investing in Social Care Infrastructure and Employment Generation: A Distributional Analysis of the Care Economy in Turkey

“…Under the ECCPE expansion, there is an increase of 8.8 billion TRY in total social security contributions paid by employees and employers. The increase in receipts from individual income US finds that spending on early childhood education yields the highest internal rates of return formalized in the form of higher future productivity and earnings (Heckman et al 2010;Heckman, Pinto, and Savelyev 2013;Conti and Heckman 2012). tax payments is 6.5 billion TRY and the value-added tax from additional household final demand is 153.7 million TRY.…”