administered by the Danish Ministry of Education. Our results indicate that fetal exposure to Ramadan has a negative impact on the … concentrated on the children with low socioeconomic status (SES) background. These results indicate that fetal insults such as … exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also …

's occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their … socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on … children's reports of family or home characteristics rather than information provided by their parents. There is a well …

measure a family's SES by the mother's and father's average years of education and household income. Our results show that … children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and … and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial …

purpose, we compared the effects of family socio-economic characteristics on children's educational attainment in four ethno … at least one child born in the cohort of 1975-1985 is matched with Ministry of Education records on all those who … of Christian and Druze children are less dependent on their family characteristics compared to Muslim and Jewish children …

While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and …

The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of … children with moderate levels of 'special educational needs' in England. We show that the decentralized design of the policy … generates significant variations in access to remediation resources across children with similar prior levels of difficulty …

This study analyses the effects of regular physical education at school on cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills … identifies the effect by using variation in the required numbers of physical education lessons across and within German federal …

Bengal in 2013 on children's early enrolment 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 …

largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in …This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine … children who lost one parent during childhood, we find a series of striking patterns which show that the relationship is …

We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …