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The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education : Evidence From a Failed Policy Experiment

DeCicca, Philip - 2011

We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy … experiment in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings imply starting Kindergarten one year late substantially reduces the … for low income students and males. Estimates suggest that entering kindergarten early may have a detrimental effect on …

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Age-specific effects of early daycare on children's health

Barschkett, Mara - 2022

Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early daycare attendance on health has received little...

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Die Dauer vorschulischer Betreuungs- und Bildungserfahrungen Ergebnisse auf der Basis von Paneldaten

Büchner, Charlotte (contributor); … - 2007

Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welche Faktoren damit in Zusammenhang stehen, wie viele Jahre ein Kind vor Schuleintritt eine Betreuungs- und Bildungseinrichtung besucht und ob die Dauer des Besuchs von Kindertageseinrichtungen mit dem späteren Schultyp in Verbindung steht. Die empirische...

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Early birds in day care : the social gradient in starting day care and children's non-cognitive skills

Peter, Frauke; Schober, Pia S.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2014

In recent years, almost all children below school age in Western industrialized countries have some experience of attending day care institutions. However, the age at which children enter day care and therefore the overall time spent in day carevaries substantially. We investigate the potential...

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Does grandparenting pay off for the next generations? : intergenerational effects of grandparental care

Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021

Grandparents act as the third largest caregiver after parental care and daycare in Germany, as in many Western societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as...

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A Child Support Framework Accounting for Parenting Time and Half-Siblings

Kulldorff, Martin; Bhattacharya, Jay - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In the United States, child support guidelines sometimes generate surprising and presumably unintentional child support amounts, especially in situations with extended visitation, shared parenting, and half-siblings. These are consequences of the ad-hoc mathematical formulas that are in common...

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Inequality in Early Care Experienced by U.S. Children

Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …

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Behavioral barriers and the socioeconomic gap in child care enrollment

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peter, Frauke; … - 2021

Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less likely to be enrolled. We study whether reducing behavioral barriers in the application process increases enrollment in child care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany...

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Economics of Foster Care

Bald, Anthony; Doyle, Joseph J, Jr; Gross, Max; Jacob, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Foster care provides substitute living arrangements to protect maltreated children. The practice is remarkably common: it is estimated that 5 percent of children in the United States are placed in foster care at some point during childhood. These children exhibit poor outcomes as children and...

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Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators

Baron, E. Jason; Gross, Max - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Foster care placement is strongly associated with crime--for example, close to one fifth of the prison population in the United States is comprised of former foster children--yet there is little evidence on whether this relationship is causal. Leveraging the quasi-random assignment of child...

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