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This report is a part of larger welfare and social policy work agenda which the Turkish State Planning Organization and the World Bank are carrying out collaboratively. The work agenda includes the preparation of a number of conceptualized, and in part of co-authored, analytical studies on topics ranging from examines the equity determinants to investigating the links between poverty, employment creation, and growth. Further, the work agenda comprises a number of human development dialogues for which we are inviting international experts and practioners to share their experiences about social policy reforms with the Turkish government and the wider academic and non-governmental public. This report examines life chances. Life chances for today Turkish people, most importantly future generation, today's children. The results presented in this report show that life chances differ in important dimensions today, and that Turkey could immensely improve its human and economic development potential by maximizing such opportunities.

Access to Information --- Adult Education --- Child Care --- Child Development --- Child Health --- Cognitive Development --- Development Policy --- Disadvantaged Groups --- Discrimination --- Early Child and Children's Health --- Early Childhood --- Early Childhood Development --- Early Childhood Education --- Economic Development --- Education --- Educational Attainment --- Enrollment Rates --- Family Health --- Fertility --- Gender --- Gross Domestic Product --- Health Insurance --- Health Monitoring & Evaluation --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Household Income --- Human Capital --- Hygiene --- Immunizations --- Infrastructure Investment --- International Comparisons --- Iodine Deficiency --- Life Expectancy --- Lifelong Learning --- Living Standards --- Market Economy --- Mental Health --- Migration --- Mortality --- Nutrition --- Orphans --- Participation Rates --- Pregnancy --- Preschool Programs --- Primary Education --- Productivity --- Public Policy --- Reading --- Respect --- Returns to Education --- Sanitation --- School Attendance --- Social Development --- Stunting --- Teacher Salaries --- Urban Areas --- User Fees --- World Health Organization