-educated caregivers have the knowledge and skills to safeguard their children's health and stimulate their cognitive development. In … more likely to marry a partner with tertiary education and their children have better early childhood development outcomes ….25 standard deviations of test scores once children are of school age. The primary mechanism seems to be that more …

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …

in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural … Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; non-cognitive skills are defined as the inverse of …). The results suggest that on average, parents invest no more in terms of educational expenditure in children who have …

correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …

Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … same time: empowering mothers through tools that also advance their children's development. A program operated by AVSI, an … Italian NGO, in a poor neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, targets parents of children from birth to age 5. It provides family …

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …

We present the results of a novel early childhood intervention in which disadvantaged 3-4-year- old children were … evaluated a shortened summer version of the program (2 months) in which children were treated immediately prior to the start of …

low-income 4 year olds. State pre-K programs targeted toward disadvantaged children do not. Differences in other pre … universal preschools offer a relatively high-quality learning experience for low-income children not reflected in typical …

effective at raising non-cognitive skills. Head Start is also more effective for children with less-educated mothers. Centers … that draw more children from center-based preschool have smaller effects, suggesting that cross-center differences in …