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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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maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …
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childhood education falls short of sufficiently answering fundamental questions about what works for whom and why. A tighter …
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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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provide more cognitive stimulation to children with higher education polygenic scores. This pattern varies by socioeconomic …
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support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …
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Nearly 20% of young prison inmates spent part of their youth in foster care - the placement of abused or neglected children with substitute families. Little is known whether foster care placement reduces or increases the likelihood of criminal behavior. This paper uses the placement frequency of...
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This paper examines reputation formation in intra-familial interactions. We consider parental reputation in a repeated two-stage game in which adolescents decide whether to give a teen birth or drop out of high school, and given adolescent decisions, the parent decides whether to house and...
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For most children, early childhood education and care (ECEC) provides the first experience of life in a group away from … Early Childhood Education and Care, examines multiple factors that can affect the quality of ECEC and thereby can influence …
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