ResearchPosted on rand.org 2002Published in: Child Rearing in America: Challenges Facing Parents of Young Children / Edited by Neal Halfon, Kathryn Taaffe McLearn and Mark A. Schuster (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2002), Chapter 2, p. 21-49
This chapter in a volume of papers focused on the lives of families with very young children documents the allocation of resources to child development made by parents, government, and others during this critical period of development.
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