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The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education : Evidence From a Failed Policy Experiment

DeCicca, Philip - 2011

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 …

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Starting school at four : the effect of universal pre-Kindergarten on children’s academic achievement

Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 8 (2008) 1, pp. 1-38

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The duration of paid parental leave and children’s scholastic performance

Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 10 (2010) 1, pp. 1-33

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After-school center-based care and children’s development

Felfe, Christina; Zierow, Larissa - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 14 (2014) 4, pp. 1299-1336

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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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Childcare, parental behavior and well-being during childhood

Haeck, Catherine; Lebihan, Laetitia; Lefebvre, Pierre; … - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 22 (2022) 2, pp. 311-360

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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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Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators

Baron, E. Jason; Gross, Max - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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...

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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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