Showing 1 - 10 of 61
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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234675
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009770723
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003404328
In the United States, child support guidelines sometimes generate surprising and presumably unintentional child support amounts, especially in situations with extended visitation, shared parenting, and half-siblings. These are consequences of the ad-hoc mathematical formulas that are in common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660089
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588281
maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629469
Foster care provides substitute living arrangements to protect maltreated children. The practice is remarkably common: it is estimated that 5 percent of children in the United States are placed in foster care at some point during childhood. These children exhibit poor outcomes as children and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191000
Foster care placement is strongly associated with crime--for example, close to one fifth of the prison population in the United States is comprised of former foster children--yet there is little evidence on whether this relationship is causal. Leveraging the quasi-random assignment of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191017
childhood education falls short of sufficiently answering fundamental questions about what works for whom and why. A tighter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191079