Investing in Our Young People

This paper was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (SES-0241858, SES-0099195, SES-0452089, SES-0752699); the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD43411); the J. B. and M. K. Pritzker Foundation; the Susan Buffett Foundation;the American Bar Foundation; the Children's Initiative, a project of the Pritzker Family Foundation at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago; and PAES, supported by the Pew Foundation. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.