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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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Parental Employment and Child Cognitive Development

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2000

This study investigates the relationship between parental employment and child cognitive development using data from … multiple years of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Maternal labor supply during the first three years of the child … employment on child cognitive development …

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Children's Welfare Exposure and Subsequent Development

Levine, Phillip B. - 2000

and its impact on several developmental outcomes. Using data from the matched mother-child file from the National … implement three alternative strategies (instrumental variables, sibling difference, and child fixed effects models) designed to …

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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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Investing in Early Childhood Development in Preschool and at Home

Duncan, Greg J.; Kalil, Ariel; Mogstad, Magne; Rege, Mari - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The foundations for successful child development are established in early childhood. Two main policy approaches for … by reviewing studies that estimate how much of the variation in child outcomes can be explained by genetics versus …

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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; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 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 intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes

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

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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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Early Childhood Care and Cognitive Development

Chaparro, Juan - 2020

wide range of early childhood policy interventions. We develop a model of child care in which households decide both the … parenting-effort channel, whereby child care subsidies that permit less parenting may enable better parenting. To estimate the … randomly assigned free child care when the child was 1 and 2 years old. We estimate a cognitive skill production function and …

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