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Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - 2011 - This draft: October 2011

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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The Impact of Economic Migration on Children's Cognitive Development : Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey

Powers, Elizabeth T. - 2011

a child's sibling migrating to the United States, there is an adverse effect when another household member - typically … the child's parent - migrates. This is particularly true for pre-school to early-school-age children with older siblings …

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The Impact of Out-of-Home Childcare Centers on Early Childhood Development

Veramendi, Greg - 2011

This paper presents a comprehensive empirical analysis of the impact of attending a child day care center on early … childhood development (ECD) in Chile, examining child development from a multi-dimensional perspective. The potential … parental decisions, children's endowments, and child care characteristics. The results of the study suggest that: (i) cognitive …

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Technology and Child Development : Evidence from the One Laptop Per Child Program

Cristia, Julian - 2012

Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of …

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The roots of cooperation

Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021 - This version: 10 June 2021

Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine...

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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021

The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math...

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The roots of cooperation

Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021

We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine pre-registered hypotheses about which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct and indirect reciprocity, and third-party punishment – emerges earliest...

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Parental leave and children's schooling outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from a large parental leave reform

Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - 2013

This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...

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Exposure to intimate partner violence and children's dynamic skill accumulation : evidence from a UK longitudinal study

Anderberg, Dan; Moroni, Gloria - 2020

longitudinal child development survey to study the relationship between verbal and physical abuse experienced by mothers and …

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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are signiﬁcantly less likely to enter the...

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