compulsory schooling from five to eight years, on the developmental outcomes of children aged 36 to 59 months. We draw upon data … increase in maternal educational attainment and corresponding enhancements in children's readiness to learn. Exploring the … underlying mechanisms, we find a notable expansion in the number and variety of activities parents, especially fathers, engage in …

change in household income on the young adult outcomes of the householdś children. In this research, we examine the role that … mechanisms through which this exogenous increase in household income affects the long run outcomes of children - parental time …, education levels and income. Previous research has relied on the use of instrumental variables to identify the effect of a …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

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 …

quality and no impact on child development nor on children's health status. Our results point to the importance of workload …

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program …

This paper estimates the impact of college teaching on students' academic achievement and labor market outcomes using … of students to teachers in a fixed sequence of compulsory courses. We find that good teaching matters more for the labor … best students are also the ones who boost their earnings the most. On the contrary, for low ability students the academic …

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …