We present the results of a novel early childhood intervention in which disadvantaged 3-4-year- old children were … evaluated a shortened summer version of the program (2 months) in which children were treated immediately prior to the start of …

Large systematic differences in young children's home learning experiences have long-term economic consequences. Many … parenting programs place significant demands on parents' time and inundate parents with information. This study evaluates the … effects of READY4K!, an eight-month-long text-messaging intervention for parents of preschoolers that targets the behavioral …

A growing literature points to children’s influence on parents’ behavior, including parental investments in children … Longitudinal Survey of Parents and Children (N=7,738), we construct polygenic scores for educational attainment and regress … status with college-educated parents responding less to children’s genetic propensity towards educational success than non …

adopted Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS). These accountability systems give providers and parents information on … hypothesis that parents responded to information about program quality by selectively enrolling away from programs with lower …

Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … sectional patterns in time spent with children by parents within the United States. Second, we interpret our results in a … thought to be critical to the development of quot;qualityquot; children who will become productive adults. This paper has …

We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U … is not present for very young children. We next examine differences in specific parental teaching activities such as … reading and the use of number and letters. We find the parents commit more of this time to girls, starting at ages as young as …

most of the negative impacts reported in earlier research are driven by children from families who only attended childcare …

This article describes a randomized field experiment in which parents were provided financial incentives to engage in … behaviors designed to increase early childhood cognitive and executive function skills through a parent academy. Parents were … rewarded for attendance at early childhood sessions, completing homework assignments with their children, and for their child …

programs targeted toward disadvantaged children shows beneficial effects. Returns exceed costs, even accounting for the … disadvantaged children compared to home alternatives. Universal programs benefit disadvantaged children …

Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long …