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We demonstrate the social efficiency of investing in high-quality early childhood education using newly collected data from the HighScope Perry Preschool Project. The data analyzed are the longest follow-up of any randomized early childhood education program. Annual observations of participant...
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We examine disparities in Child Tax Credit (CTC) eligibility and anti-poverty effects since 1998 by family type …, because the credit was virtually nonrefundable. By 2017, disparities by family type mostly disappear, as eligibility and anti …
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The present paper reports the results of an experiment which studied the effects of parents' marital status (divorced or non-divorced) and psychological counseling (administered or not) on the honesty level of kindergarten children. Data on marital status and psychological counseling was...
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across local areas in England, and comparing siblings born to the same mother via family fixed effects. Using rich individual …
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motivation, which assess beliefs about math importance for the job market, and student math anxiety. The presence of one family …
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neighbourhood careers of children once they have left the parental home.We use a quasi-experimental family design exploiting sibling … synthetic pairs but the difference gets smaller with time, indicating a quicker attenuation of the family effect on residential …
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that those who descended from Palestinian refugees do not discriminate at all, suggesting that a family history of refugee …
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This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow...
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The aim of our paper is to analyse the relationship between working time flexibility and parental time devoted to children. Using data from a large panel survey of Polish households carried out in 2013 and 2014 (Determinants of Educational Decisions Household Panel Survey, UDE) we investigate...
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changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for …
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