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out in a household context. Therefore, we have information about both the child's and mother's cognitive and noncognitive …
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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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child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can …
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This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model...
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Substantial research on the relationship between family structures and child outcomes represents a considerable part of … family (either a two parent or a single parent family) might be beneficial for child outcomes, in particular for non …-cognitive skills. We use skills, such as socio-emotional behavior or locus of control, as our primary measure of child outcomes. The …
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.24, whereas the parent-child correlation in the sample of adult children was between 0.19 and 0.27 for non-cognitive skills, and … up to 0.56 for cognitive skills. Thus, the skill gradient increases with the age of the child. Furthermore, the skill …
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An increasing number of panel studies use short screening questionnaires to assess infant development. Although some research examines the validity of screening questionnaires for middleclass families, knowledge about their accuracy in disadvantaged households is scarce. This paper validates a...
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mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we … find that differences in the time spent on specific activities such as reading, talking, and playing with the child are … activities are explained by two factors: (i) that center care replaces time that parents spend with the child but are doing other …
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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 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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