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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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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents

Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...

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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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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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Investing in Early Childhood Development in Preschool and at Home

Duncan, Greg J.; Kalil, Ariel; Mogstad, Magne; Rege, Mari - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

childhood education falls short of sufficiently answering fundamental questions about what works for whom and why. A tighter …

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Effects of Daily School and Care Disruptions During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child Mental Health

Gassman-Pines, Anna; Ananat, Elizabeth; Fitz-Henley, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected American children, including disruptions to their care and school settings. Children attending in-person child care or school have contended with unpredictable closures and time in remote school, which in turn is subject to its own types of...

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Children and female employment in Mongolia

Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2022

Although a large body of literature has argued that motherhood has a profound and long-lasting negative effect on the employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest round of the EBRD-World Bank Life in Transition...

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Preventive Care, Care for Children and National Health Insurance

Ghez, Gilbert R. - 1979

The purpose of this paper is to examine issues related to the coverage of preventive care under national health insurance. Four specific kinds of medical care services are included under the rubric of preventive care: prenatal care; pediatric care, dental care, and preventive physicians' services...

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