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Expanding opportunities for the next generation : early childhood development in the Middle East and North Africa
El-Kogali, Safaa; Krafft, Carolyn - 2015 - Online-Ausg.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245111
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461572
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660089
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629469
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191000
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191017
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191079
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Early Childhood Development : Situation Analysis for Zambia
Hasan, Rifat - 2015
Teenage pregnancies have potential negative consequences on the next generation. Children born to adolescent mothers are particularly at risk in terms of health, nutrition, cognitive and socio-emotional development. Evidence shows that the early years - especially the first 1,000 days - are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644558
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Early Childhood Development : A Review of the Global Evidence
Nadeau, Sophie - 2015
Early Childhood Development (ECD) is a holistic concept that refers to the physical, cognitive, socio-emotional, and linguistic development of young children until the time they transition to primary school. This policy brief highlights that developmental gaps in the early years of a child's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644559
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Early Childhood Development : A Review of the Global Evidence
Nadeau, Sophie - 2016
Early Childhood Development (ECD) is a holistic concept that refers to the physical, cognitive, socio-emotional, and linguistic development of young children until the time they transition to primary school. This policy brief highlights that developmental gaps in the early years of a child's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644564