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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464653
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Education Gradients in Parental Time Investment and Subjective Well-being
Kalil, Ariel; Mayer, Susan E.; Delgado, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their higher opportunity cost of time and working more hours. Using data from the 2010-2013 and 2021 waves of the Well-being Module of the American Time Use Survey, we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372469
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Welfare Reform and the Quality of Young Children's Home Environments
Kalil, Ariel; Corman, Hope; Dave, Dhaval; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This study investigates effects of welfare reform in the U.S., a major policy shift that increased employment of low-income mothers and reliance on their own earnings instead of cash assistance through the welfare system, on the quality of the home environments they provide for their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362060
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Does Money Matter? Regression-Discontinuity Estimates from Education Finance Reform in Massachusetts
Guryan, Jonathan - 2001
The paper studies a typical state-level education finance equalization scheme, and considers two questions. First, what … fraction of state education aid is spent on schools? And second, does increased educational funding for historically low … that 50 to 75 cents of each dollar of education aid were spent on schools. Estimates also suggest that increased spending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470455