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affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …
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The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …
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-curricular activities, on children's skill development. Our results indicate positive effects: both cognitive skills, measured by school …
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children with lower initial family incomes vs. children with higher initial family incomes. However, offsetting this effect …, our findings also suggest that as children grow up, changes in family income ranking over time are related to children …
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children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …
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for children's development. We examine this hypothesis by analyzing the short-and long-run effects on children's health … children's education - not, however, on health. The effects on children's education aggravate over time. Empirical evidence …
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What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year … difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable improvements in children's reading and math skills at age 15, as well as in … grade progression during primary and secondary school. Effects are driven by girls and disadvantaged children …
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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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Recent analyses of intergenerational mobility show that investments in children pay big dividends. The priority of …
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Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but … control experiment in which more than one thousand children attending grades 6-10 across 15 different schools and 5 school … districts in California were randomly given computers to use at home. Children in the treatment group are more likely to report …
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