Investing in early years

Investing in early human development: timing and economic efficiency.

Policy discussions to ameliorate socioeconomic (SES) inequalities are increasingly focused on investments in early childhood. Yet such interventions are costly to implement, and clear evidence on the optimal time to intervene to yield a high economic and social return in the future is meagre. The majority of successful early childhood interventions start in the preschool years. However socioeco...

Early stage venture capital investing: comparing California and Scandinavia

While venture capital has become a global phenomenon, our knowledge about regional differences in venture capitalist (VC) behavior is quite poor. Most crossregional comparisons have been quantitative replications of US based studies, which has made it difficult to discern qualitative differences. To help remedy this situation, we conducted semi-structured interviews with altogether 12 early sta...

INVESTING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE: THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING CASE Moore T, Oberklaid F. Investing in Early education and care: The Health and Wellbeing

The dramatic social and demographic changes that have occurred in developed nations over the past several decades have lead to significant changes in the circumstances in which families are raising young children, and in the conditions that young children experience as they group up. In parallel with these social and demographic changes, there is evidence of worsening health and developmental o...

Saving and investing for early retirement: A theoretical analysis

We study optimal consumption and portfolio choice in a framework where investors adjust their labor supply through an irreversible choice of their retirement time. We show that investing for early retirement tends to increase savings and reduce an agent’s effective relative risk aversion, thus increasing her stock market exposure. Contrary to common intuition, an investor might find it optimal ...

Early Years