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The impacts of a prototypical home visiting program on child skills
Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu - 2022
This paper uses random assignment to estimate the causal impacts on child skills of a widely emulated early childhood … individual children and compare treatments and controls. The program substantially improves child language and cognitive, fine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168792
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Smarter through social protection? : evaluating the impact of Ethiopia's safety-net on child cognitive abilities
Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; Woldehanna, Tassew - 2017
We provide new estimates of the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in Ethiopia on child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731869
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The effects of incentivizing early prenatal care on infant health
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2020
We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316059
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Treatment effects and the measurement of skills in a prototypical home visiting program
Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu; Zhou, Jin - 2020
identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237115
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
of the child does not matter, but that children with fewer siblings, and firstborn children, are more strongly influenced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003481849
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Older and wiser? : Birth order and IQ of young men
Black, Sandra E. (contributor);  … - 2007
While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education and earnings, the evidence on the effects of birth order on IQ is decidedly mixed. This paper uses a large dataset on the population of Norway that allows us to precisely measure birth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003639202
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Small family, smart family? : Family size and the IQ scores of young men
Black, Sandra E. (contributor);  … - 2007
How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of educational attainment and future labor market success; as a result, understanding the determinants of cognitive skills can lead to a better understanding of children's long run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003639203
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The quantity-quality tradeoff of children in a developing country : identification using Chinese twins
Li, Hongbin (contributor); Zhang, Junsen (contributor);  … - 2007
Testing the tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family … size. Using data from the Chinese Population Census, this paper examines the effect of family size on child educational … attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641527
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Culture and human capital investments : evidence of an unconditional cash transfer program in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica (contributor) - 2008
, conditional on having one elder and one school-age child living in the household. I find that cultural factors (proxied by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754940
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Initial risk matrix, home resources, ability development and children's achievement
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in ability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755918