quality and no impact on child development nor on children's health status. Our results point to the importance of workload … health care services. The program changed the allocation of time for community health workers, asking them to carry out early …

sessions plus two sessions of guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading … families in Chile. Households in 162 public health centers were randomly assigned to three groups: a control group, a second … the socio-emotional development of children of families participating in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0 …

's learning, while parents in the plus modality became less likely to use physical punishment to discipline children. … children ages 2-6 years old in Serbia. We compare two program modalities to a control group. In the first (standard) modality … home environments, with two exceptions: parents in the standard treatment became more conscious about their child …

, even though displacement episodes early in children's lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children's teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

between children of rich and poor parents remain as high in Nordic countries as elsewhere in Europe. One explanation for this …Generous maternity leave, affordable daycare, extensive social safety nets, excellent universal health care, and high … investments in children contribute to a levelled playing field and promote social mobility. However, gaps in learning outcomes …

This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use … panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National … partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is …

This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral … neighboring a single discontinuity). Participation in the program reduces the incidence of behavioral problems, serious health … problems and obesity of male children at ages 12 and 13. It also lowers depression and obesity among adolescents, and reduces …

This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their … used a lottery to assign children to limited public daycare openings. Winning the lottery translated to a 34 percent … which time all children were eligible for universal schooling). The rise in labor force participation is driven primarily by …

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …

We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid … 30. The effect is especially large for children of those mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of … unpaid leave. -- maternity leave ; children’s outcomes …