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The Effect of School Starting Age on Special Needs Incidence and Child Development into Adolescence
Balestra, Simone - 2018
Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child's probability of developing special educational needs in early...
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From Dawn till Dusk : Implications of Full-Day Care for Children's Development
Felfe, Christina - 2017
A currently high-ranking question on the political agenda of many developed countries relates to the intensive margin of child care and thus to the effects of prolonging the opening hours of child care institutions. This study adds to the scarce literature on this question and investigates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953947
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Head Start and the Distribution of Long Term Education and Labor Market Outcomes
de Haan, Monique; Leuven, Edwin - 2021
In this paper we investigate the effect of Head Start on long term education and labor market outcomes using data from … dominance assumptions and (3) we consider education and labor market outcomes observed for individuals in their early 30s. The … results show that Head Start has a statistically significant positive effect on years of education, in particular for women …
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Early Child Care and Child Development : For Whom it Works and Why
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2021
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315821
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Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents
Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon H.; Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2021
In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave on children’s and parents’ outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for children’s cognitive skills. School performance at age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315992
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Extracurricular Educational Programs and School Readiness : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment with Preschool Children
Makles, Anna - 2016
This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996262
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Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - CESifo - 2012
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599725
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Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents
Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon H.; Kirkebøen, Lars J. - CESifo - 2011
In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave on children’s and parents’ outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for children’s cognitive skills. School performance at age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150652
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Physiological Constraints and Comparative Economic Development
Dalgaard, Carl‐Johan - 2018
It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the “latitude gradient”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927736
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On the Design of Education Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and non Education Outcomes: The Case of Teenage Pregnancy
Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan; Maldonado, Darío - CESifo - 2011
We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern … education CCT that conditions renewal on school performance reduces teenage pregnancy; the program can increase teenage … teenage pregnancy of two education CCTs implemented in Bogotá (Subsidio Educativo, SE, and Familias en Acción, FA); both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228615