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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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A Flying Start? Long Term Consequences of Maternal Time Investments in Children During Their First Year of Life
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2010
school dropout. For mothers with low education we find a 5.2 percentage points decline. The effect is also especially large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135181
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The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India
Hazarika, Gautam - 2010
This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less developed countries recent influential research on the...
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Human Capital Investments in Children : A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries
Osterbacka, Eva - 2010
Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139716
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Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Care and Education
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education … potential benefits. By contrast, expansions of early education generally yield benefits at school entry, adolescence, and for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117837
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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity
Herbst, Chris M. - 2011
data from the Kindergarten cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K), our results indicate that an increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119294
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Exploring the Impacts of Public Childcare on Mothers and Children in Italy : Does Rationing Play a Role?
Brilli, Ylenia - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children's scholastic achievements. We use a newly available dataset containing individual standardized test scores of pupils attending second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120847
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Where to Put the Kids? Effects of Type of Non-Parental Child Care on Pre-Teen Skills and Risky Behavior
Datta Gupta, Nabanita - 2011
This paper investigates pre-teenage effects of the choice of type of non-parental child care at age three (preschool relative to more informal family day care). We exploit a Danish panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment that generates variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122123
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Time for Children : Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009
Fox, Liana - 2011
Utilizing data from the 1967-2009 years of the March Current Population Surveys, we examine two important resources for children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show what underlies these trends. We find that increases...
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Time Costs of Children as Parents' Foregone Leisure
Ekert Jaffé, Olivia - 2011
This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The focus is on couples with two spouses working Full-Time in the labor force in order to avoid issues of substitution between home production and labor supply. Time costs are computed...
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