Investing in our Children

Investing in Children A brief review of the social and economic returns to investing in children

A brief review of the social and economic returns to investing in children Policy Advisory Unit Division of Policy and Strategy

The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

T article presents the case for investing more in young American children who grow up in disadvantaged environments. Figure 1 graphs time series of alternative measures of the percentage of children in disadvantaged families. The percentage of children born into, or living in, nontraditional families has increased greatly in the past thirty years.1,2 Approximately 25% of children are now born i...

INVESTING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE: THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING CASE Moore T, Oberklaid F. Investing in Early education and care: The Health and Wellbeing

The dramatic social and demographic changes that have occurred in developed nations over the past several decades have lead to significant changes in the circumstances in which families are raising young children, and in the conditions that young children experience as they group up. In parallel with these social and demographic changes, there is evidence of worsening health and developmental o...

ECRC PAPER SERIES The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

Parents face quantity–quality trade-offs between reproduction and investment in offspring in Iceland

How to optimally allocate time, energy and investment in an effort to maximize one's reproductive success is a fundamental problem faced by all organisms. This effort is complicated when the production of each additional offspring dilutes the total resources available for parental investment. Although a quantity-quality trade-off between producing and investing in offspring has long been assume...