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Paying Moms to Stay Home : Short and Long Run Effects on Parents and Children

Gruber, Jonathan; Kosonen, Tuomas; Huttunen, Kristiina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the impacts of a policy designed to reward mothers who stay at home rather than join the labor force when their children are under age three. We use regional and over time variation to show that the Finnish Home Care Allowance (HCA) decreases maternal employment in both the short and...

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Effects of Enhanced Legal Aid in Child Welfare : Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Mi Abogado

Cooper, Ryan; Doyle, Joseph J.; Hojman, Andrés P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Children spend years in foster care, and there are concerns that bureaucratic hurdles contribute to unnecessarily long stays. In a novel approach to policy making, the Chilean government randomized the introduction of a program aimed at reducing these delays in order to evaluate its effects on...

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Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development : Experimental Evidence from Brazil

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Barros, Ricardo Paes de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their caregivers over the course of seven years after enrollment into daycare. At the end of 2007, the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil used a lottery to assign children to limited...

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Violent Discipline and Parental Behavior : Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers

Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ravindran, Saravana; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Approximately 75% of children aged 2 to 4 worldwide are regularly subjected to violent discipline across the globe. We study the impact of a virtually-delivered intervention on positive parenting practices in Jamaica. We find the intervention improves caregiver knowledge (0.52 SD) and attitudes...

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A Scalable Approach to High-Impact Tutoring for Young Readers : Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Cortes, Kalena E.; Kortecamp, Karen; Loeb, Susanna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

program that embeds part-time tutors into the classroom to provide short bursts of 1:1 instruction. Eligible kindergarten … over two times more likely to reach the program's target reading level by the end of kindergarten (70% vs. 32%). The …

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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation

Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

education and wages for the children born under these policies. The mobility effect, chiefly an increase in intergenerational … mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and …

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Parental Investments and Skills Formation During Infancy and Youth : Long Term Evidence From an Early Childhood Intervention

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Cortes, Darwin; Maldonado, Darío; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

What happens to children during the early years is recognized to be very important for their long run development. It is also increasingly clear that the skills that are relevant for economic success and more generally well-being are multidimensional, including different types of socioemotional...

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The Impact of Early Childhood Parenting Interventions on Child Learning : A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Dadisman, Kimberly; Nickow, Andre; Oreopoulos, Philip - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Parenting is widely considered to be among the most important influences on early childhood (EC) development. But to what extent and under what circumstances can EC parenting programs improve child learning outcomes? While substantial progress has been made toward addressing these questions in...

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