increased access to relatively low quality ECD services, led to declines in child development among children from less …

Bengal in 2013 on children’s early enrollment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple …. Analyzing the test scores, we find that after the program's introduction, both math and reading scores of treated children did …

Socio- Economic Survey (HSES) to examine the correlation between the presence of children of different age categories in a … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …

children's cognitive outcomes. My identification strategy exploits geographical differences in terms of exposure to the program … children. In turn, the effect is only significant for mother with negative effect on the interaction between mother and … children, which means that there is a substitution effect, mother use this time to do something else. These findings call for …

Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied … the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how … parental migration affects children's non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data of children in rural China and adopt …

This paper investigates the impact of attending early childcare on second generation immigrant children's cognitive … attendance differs between native and immigrant children. Although we find no effects for Italian children, our estimates show a … positive and significant effect on literacy test scores for immigrant children of low educated mothers, which suggests that …

regression discontinuity estimator based on children's birth months, we find a sizable effect of childcare attendance on women …