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households, which in turn affects child outcomes. We estimate how changes in parental labor supply due to these tariff reductions … affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro …
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transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern economic growth. This paper contributes to the literature on the child quantity …
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Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children's skill...
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We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … waves of the Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The findings show that family … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …
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This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision … affects the equilibrium. Due to specialization in home production, the incentive to use child care is smaller for married …
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Economic theory predicts that adverse shocks during early childhood have detrimental short- and long-run consequences for children's development. We examine this hypothesis by analyzing the short-and long-run effects on children's health and education of a specific shock: housing damages caused...
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What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year olds mainly crowds out maternal care? To answer this question we exploit a natural experiment framework and employ a difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable...
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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed “the Boy Crisis.” An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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resources in early childhood also affects the working of the local economy. Geographic variation in child care services … universal child care during a period of national reform to raise and equalize the child care coverage across Norway. We apply a … level data about quantity and quality of child care and various community controls. Given a reform driving the expansion of …
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Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but largely uninformed by plausibly causal evidence. We provide the first test of this hypothesis using a large-scale randomized control experiment in which more than one thousand...
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