Kalb, Guyonne; Ours, Jan C. van - In: Economics of Education Review 40 (2014) C, pp. 1-24
parental reading to children at age 4–5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills (including … cognitive skills are persistent and robust to a wide range of sensitivity analyses. Although reading to children is also … correlated with children's non-cognitive skills, after accounting for the endogeneity of reading to children, no causal effect …