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regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education … better care for their children, thus increasing the socioeconomic gap. …
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This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio …-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well …
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of ten caregivers of children aged 2-6 years. In the impact evaluation, the primary outcome was caregivers' use of …
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targeted caregivers of children aged 6 to 15 in vulnerable communities in the country. Treated caregivers were visited by a … their children for misbehaving. The effect is greater for caregivers with higher pre-intervention levels of coercive … of school-aged children in highly violent middle-income settings. …
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mental health but observed a decrease in physical violence against children among female caregivers. While these findings …
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fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …
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This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children …
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Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers' employment and earnings drop persistently compared to fathers. In addition to gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to mothers' longer employment interruptions. This...
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development (namely, language, cognition, and socio-emotional skills) of children 0-5 in five Latin American countries (Chile … implementing evidence-based interventions at scale to improve developmental outcomes of the most disadvantaged children in society. …
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fertility. As male education remains unchanged by the reforms, later life education reduces the pre-existing gender earnings gap …
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