Investing in Children: Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0815722028 ISBN 13 : 9780815722021

Editeur : Brookings Institution Press, 2012

Synopsis

Investing in Children: Work, Education, and Social Policy in Two Rich Countries presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the United States on economic factors that influence children s development and the respective social policies that the two nations have designed to boost human capital development. The volume is organized around three major issues: parental employment, early childhood education and child care, and postsecondary education. All three issues are intimately linked with human capital development. Since both Australia and the United States have created extensive policies to address these three issues, there is potential for each to learn from the other s experiences and policies. This volume helps fulfill that potential. The authors demonstrate that in both nations, the effects of low family income and income inequality emerge early in life and persist. However, policies that increase parental employment, augment family income, and promote quality preschool and postsecondary education can boost children s development and at least partially offset the negative developmental effects of family economic disadvantage.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ariel Kalil is a professor at the University of Chicago s Harris School of Public Policy, where she also directs the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy. Ron Haskins, senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution, is coauthor (with Isabel Sawhill) of Creating an Opportunity Society (Brookings, 2009). Jenny Chesters is a postdoctoral fellow with the Faculty of Education at the University of Canberra.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brookings Institution Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0815722028
• ISBN 13: 9780815722021
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 257
• Éditeur: Kalil Ariel
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