BFI Working Paper·Jun 10, 2026
The Enjoyment Paradox: College-Educated Mothers Invest More in Their Children’s Learning and Enjoy It Less
Ariel Kalil, Haoxuan Liu, and Ritika Sethi
Topics:
Early Childhood Education, Employment & Wages, Higher Education & Workforce Training
BFI Working Paper·Jun 8, 2026
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Field Experiments to Explore Novel Features of Parental Speech and Foster Child Development
Julie Pernaudet, John List, Arnoldo Müller-Molina, Majid Ahmadi, Imrul Huda, Ajay Sailopal, and Dana Suskind
Topics:
Early Childhood Education
BFI Working Paper·Apr 14, 2026
Nudging Parents out the Door: The Impacts of Parental Encouragement on School Choice and Test Scores
Guthrie Gray-Lobe, Michael Kremer, Joost de Laat, Oluchi Mbonu, and Cole Scanlon
Topics:
Early Childhood Education
BFI Working Paper·Mar 20, 2026
Does Scarcity Tax Parents’ Minds?
Ariel Kalil and Mauricio Koechlin
Topics:
Early Childhood Education, Economic Mobility & Poverty
BFI Working Paper·Feb 17, 2026
Dynamic Complementarity
James Heckman, Haihan Tian, Zijian Zhang, and Jin Zhou
Topics:
Early Childhood Education
BFI Working Paper·Feb 16, 2026
Income Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Executive Function
Ariel Kalil and Mauricio Koechlin
Topics:
Early Childhood Education, Economic Mobility & Poverty
BFI Working Paper·Jan 14, 2026
The Economics of Scaling Early Childhood Programs: Lessons from The Chicago School
John List
Topics:
Early Childhood Education
BFI Working Paper·Oct 13, 2025
Introducing The SPEAK: A Scalable Computer- Adaptive Tool to Measure Knowledge of Early Human Development
Caroline Gaudreau, Dani Levine, John List, and Dana Suskind
Topics:
Early Childhood Education
BFI Working Paper·Sep 30, 2025
A Study of the Microdynamics of Early Childhood Learning
James Heckman and Jin Zhou
Topics:
Early Childhood Education
BFI Working Paper·Sep 30, 2025
Closing Early Math Gaps by Parental Education with Technology at Home
Daniela Bresciani, Ariel Kalil, Haoxuan Liu, Susan E. Mayer, and Rohen Shah
Topics:
Early Childhood Education