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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461572
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With or Without You : Divorce Rates and Intra-Household Allocation of Time
Tabasso, Domenico - 2011
This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently likely to decrease the risk of divorce. All such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132570
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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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Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - 2010
constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. We use a direct measure of child ability for all primary school … and how much to invest in their childﾒs education. We find children with one standard deviation higher own ability are 16 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135821
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137511
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How Responsive is Female Labour Supply to Child Care Costs : New Australian Estimates
Gong, Xiaodong - 2010
The degree of responsiveness of Australian women's labour supply to child care cost has been a matter of some debate. There is a view that the level of responsiveness is very low or negligible, running counter to international and anecdotal evidence. In this paper we review the Australian and...
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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...
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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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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit
Gonzalez, Libertad - 2011
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July 1, 2007. The regression discontinuity-type design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120131