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How do parents respond to regulation of sugary drinks in child care? : evidence from California

Hu, Jiafei; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Yuan, Haishan - 2019

care facilities. The regulation may reduce children's consumption of sugary beverages in the short run and weaken their … regulation by providing sugary drinks at home. Using detailed scanner data of grocery purchases, we find that affected California … households increased their juice purchases right after the regulation became effective. However, this increase disappears after …

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The development and happiness of very young children

Anand, Paul; Roope, Laurence - 2016

The paper demonstrates how Sen's (1985) alternative approach to welfare economics can be used to shed light on the wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)...

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Parental inputs and socio-economic gaps in early child development

Macmillan, Lindsey; Tominey, Emma - 2019

By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a reform to mothers' education on her child's skills and use mediation analysis to explore the role of parental inputs as mechanisms. The reform shifted mothers' education from no,...

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Does unemployment worsen babies' health? : a tale of siblings, maternal behaviour and selection

De Cao, Elisabetta; McCormick, Barry; Nicodemo, Catia - 2019

We study the effect of unemployment on birth outcomes by exploiting geographical variation in the unemployment rate across local areas in England, and comparing siblings born to the same mother via family fixed effects. Using rich individual data from hospital administrative records between 2003...

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School quality and the development of cognitive skills between age four and six

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015

This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality is measured by the school's average achievement test...

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The effect of parents' employment on children's educational attainment

Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - 2000

This paper presents the conditions under which a causal interpretation can be given to the association between childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in own consumption and children's wellbeing, estimation is...

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The effect of family disruption on children's personality development : evidence from British longitudinal data

Prevoo, Tyas; Weel, Bas ter - 2014

This research documents the effects of different forms of family disruptions - measured by separation, divorce and death - on personality development of British children included in the 1970 British Cohort Study. There are statistically significant correlations between family disruptions prior...

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The "mighty girl" effect : does parenting daughters alter attitudes towards gender roles?

Borrell-Porta, Mireia; Costa-Font, Joan; Philipp, Julia - 2018

Understanding the malleability of gender norms is crucial to address gender inequalities. We study the effect of parenting daughters on a gender role attitude relating to the traditional male breadwinner model: whether the husband should earn and the wife stay at home. We control for other...

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Use of extra-school time and child behaviours : evidence from the UK

Meroni, Elena Claudia; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, … - 2018

In this paper, we study the effects of extra-school activities on children's non-cognitive development, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK) and focusing on children aged 7-11 years old. We classify the time spent out of school into six homogenous groups of activities, using...

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Cross cohort evidence on gendered sorting patterns in the UK : the importance of societal movements versus childhood variables

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Lordan, Grace - 2018

We consider the extent to which societal shifts have been responsible for an increased tendency for females to sort into traditional male roles over time, versus childhood factors. Drawing on three cohort studies, which follow individuals born in the UK in 1958, 1970 and 2000, we compare the...

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