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A Child Support Framework Accounting for Parenting Time and Half-Siblings

Kulldorff, Martin; Bhattacharya, Jay - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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...

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Inequality in Early Care Experienced by U.S. Children

Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …

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Economics of Foster Care

Bald, Anthony; Doyle, Joseph J, Jr; Gross, Max; Jacob, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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...

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Investing in Early Childhood Development in Preschool and at Home

Duncan, Greg J.; Kalil, Ariel; Mogstad, Magne; Rege, Mari - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

childhood education falls short of sufficiently answering fundamental questions about what works for whom and why. A tighter …

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The Impact of School and Childcare Closures on Labor Market Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Garcia, Kairon Shayne D.; Cowan, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

A substantial fraction of schools and childcare facilities in the United States closed their in-person operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. These closures may carry substantial costs to the families of affected children. In this paper, we examine the impact of school and childcare closures...

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Child Skill Production : Accounting for Parental and Market-Based Time and Goods Investments

Caucutt, Elizabeth M. - 2020

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Introducing CogX : A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2020

randomized to receive a new preschool and parent education program focused on cognitive and non-cognitive skills (CogX) or to a … control group that did not receive preschool education. In addition to a typical academic year (9 month) program, we also … Kindergarten. Both programs, including the shortened version, significantly improved cognitive test scores by about one quarter of …

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Child-Driven Parenting : Differential Early Childhood Investment by Offspring Genotype

Breinholt, Asta - 2020

provide more cognitive stimulation to children with higher education polygenic scores. This pattern varies by socioeconomic …

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The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J. - 2009

support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …

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Parental Education and Parental Time With Children

Guryan, Jonathan - 2008

is a strong positive relationship between parental education, or earnings, and time spent with children. We then show … difference. We speculate that one reason for this positive education gradient relates to the investment aspect of time spent with …

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