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This chapter presents an integrated economic approach that organizes and interprets the evidence on child development. It also discusses the indicators of child well-being that are used in international comparisons. Recent evidence on child development is summarized, and policies to promote...
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market outcomes of the children whose parents were affected by them, perhaps because benefits are hard to measure or confined … adults, particularly for disadvantaged children; however the gains may be less pronounced when high quality subsidized child …
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- significant differences in the educational and labor market outcomes across children of varying birth orders. Taking advantage of … a rich set of information on in utero and early childhood conditions in the Children of the NLSY79, we find that, within …
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receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … care subsidies on children's weight outcomes. Our instrumental variables estimates suggest that subsidized child care leads … to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children. …
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these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic …
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Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive …-B administrators strictly controlled the mechanism by which children were assigned to assessment dates. The OLS results show that … children utilizing non-parental arrangements score higher on tests of mental ability, a finding that holds after accounting for …
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Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children's age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …
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What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year … difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable improvements in children's reading and math skills at age 15, as well as in … grade progression during primary and secondary school. Effects are driven by girls and disadvantaged children. …
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grant-writing assistance. We find evidence of a large drop at the OEO cutoff in mortality rates for children from causes …
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We estimate the impact of macroeconomic conditions on the child care market. We find that the industry is substantially more exposed to the business cycle than other low-wage industries and responds more strongly to negative shocks than positive ones. Indeed, child care employment requires more...
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