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The Structure of Early Care and Education in the United States: Historical Evolution and International Comparisons

Witte, Ann Dryden; Trowbridge, Marisol - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

Most European governments have universal, consolidated, education-based ECE programs that are available from early in …

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Pathways to Education: An Integrated Approach to Helping At-Risk High School Students

Oreopoulos, Philip; Brown, Robert S.; Lavecchia, Adam M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Pathways to Education is a comprehensive youth support program developed to improve academic outcomes among those …

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Conditional Cash Penalties in Education: Evidence from the Learnfare Experiment

Dee, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Wisconsin's influential Learnfare initiative is a conditional cash penalty program that sanctions a family's welfare grant when covered teens fail to meet school attendance targets. In the presence of reference-dependent preferences, Learnfare provides uniquely powerful financial incentives for...

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The Effect of Credit Constraints on the College Drop-Out Decision A Direct Approach Using a New Panel Study

Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

A serious difficulty in determining the importance of credit constraints in education arises because standard data …

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How Much is Too Much? The Influence of Preschool Centers on Children's Social and Cognitive Development

Loeb, Susanna; Bridges, Margaret; Fuller, Bruce; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Previous research has demonstrated that attending center care is associated with cognitive benefits for young children. However, little is known about the ideal age for children to enter such care or the "right" amount of time, both weekly and yearly, for children to attend center programs....

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Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall

Maccini, Sharon L.; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian …

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The Effect of Welfare Reform on Prenatal Care and Birth Weight

Kaestner, Robert; Lee, Won Chan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

Welfare reform has resulted in a dramatic decline in welfare caseloads and some have claimed that a significant number … women's health care utilization, and this may adversely affect infant health. Welfare reform also may affect healthcare … available for health investments, and levels of stress. In this paper we examine the effect of welfare reform on prenatal care …

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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks

Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

expenditure rise, while child labor falls. In the area of entrepreneurship, households raise hours worked in self-employment, and …

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The Benefits and Costs of Head Start

Ludwig, Jens; Phillips, Deborah A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

In this essay we review what is known about Head Start and argue that the program is likely to generate benefits to participants and society as a whole that are large enough to justify the program's costs. Our conclusions differ importantly from those offered in some previous reviews because we...

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Learning about Academic Ability and the College Drop-out Decision

Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We use unique data to examine how college students from low income families form expectations about academic ability and to examine the role that learning about ability and a variety of other factors play in the college drop-out decision. From the standpoint of satisfying a central implication...

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