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This paper exploits novel data and empirical methods to examine parental preferences for child care. Specifically, we analyze consumer reviews of child care businesses posted on the website Yelp.com. A key advantage of Yelp is that it contains a large volume of unstructured information about a...
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Our paper provides some of the first evidence on the effect of the Head Start funding expansions on program inputs. We take advantage of the county-year variation in funding increases that were implemented due to a number of legislated policy changes in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s....
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This paper quantifies the experimentally evaluated life-cycle benefits of a widely implemented early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. We join experimental data with non-experimental data using economic models to forecast its life-cycle benefits. Our baseline estimate of the...
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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The evidence for the effects of early childhood education on risky behavior in adolescence is limited. This paper studies the consequences of a reform of a large-scale universal kindergarten program in Japan. Exploiting a staggered expansion of kindergartens across regions, we estimate the...
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Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6 …, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with … maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …
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This paper combines multiple sources of information on early childhood development in a unified model for analysis of a wide range of early childhood policy interventions. We develop a model of child care in which households decide both the quantities and qualities of maternal and non-maternal...
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only for children around the median of the attendance rate baseline distribution (between deciles 4 and 6). The … intervention was ineffective for children with very high or very low pre-treatment absenteeism levels. Our results, although … encouraging, emphasize the limits of these types of interventions, especially for children in families where barriers to reduce …
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We present findings from an integrated early childhood parenting program on stunting and wasting in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Importantly, where half the communities were randomly assigned to receive the parenting program and the remaining half served as a control that received standard...
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sessions plus two sessions of guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading … the socio-emotional development of children of families participating in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0 ….43 and 0.54 standard deviation, respectively) relative to children of nonparticipating families. The treatments also led to …
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