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.

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Information

Publisher

Brookings Institution Press

Year

2012

ISBN

9780815722038

Topic

Politique et relations internationales

Subtopic

Politique sociale

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 - Introduction
2 - Dynamics of Early Maternal Employment in Low-Income Families
3 - Family Joblessness and Child Well-Being in Australia
4 - The Way Families Work: Jobs, Hours, Income, and Children's Well-Being
5 - The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on the Quality of Care That Two-Year-Old Children Receive
6 - Early Childhood Development and School Readiness
7 - Economic Inequality and Children's Educational Attainment
8 - Pathways of Social Disadvantage from Adolescence into Adulthood
9 - Poverty, Intergenerational Mobility, and Young Adult Educational Attainment
Contributors
Index
Back Cover