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connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …
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We evaluate the effects of a 10-week intervention that randomly provided access to remote coaching to parents of … preschool children over the summer break in Peru. In response to learning losses during school closures induced by COVID-19 …, education coaches offered guidance and encouragement to parents in activities designed to accelerate the development of core …
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Play during early childhood is key to stimulating children's physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development …. However, research on play-based learning is largely limited to high-income countries, and little is known about the use of … the development of emotional and cognitive skills in children. The study also found a significant effect of 0.19 SD on the …
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In this article we evaluate the effectiveness of ethnomathematics education among indigenous children: the JADENKÄ … improved the students' mathematical and ethnomathematical skills. The magnitude of the impact on mathematics, of 0 ….12-0.18 standard deviations (s.d.), is comparable to preschool programs that teach intercultural bilingual classes in low- and middle-income …
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. The experiment provided parents of preschool students with text messages to support their children's learning at home …. After 15 weeks of intervention, the cognitive skills of children whose parents received the text messages rose 0 …
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Tailoring instruction to each student’s needs can produce significant learning gains. However, few programs have … program improves overall Mathematics outcomes, and that it has stronger impact on students in the lower quintiles of the … Mathematics outcomes distribution and on students whose teachers have university degrees. The effect on the content areas where …
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Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
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How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
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