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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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Longer Term Effects of Head Start
Garces, Eliana - 2000
Little is known about the long-term effects of participation in Head Start. This paper draws on unique non-experimental data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to provide new evidence on the effects of participation in Head Start on schooling attainment, earnings, and criminal behavior....
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School Quality and the Longer-Term Effects of Head Start
Currie, Janet - 1998
Recent research on Head Start, an enriched preschool program for poor children that effects on test scores fade out' more quickly for black children than for white children. This" paper uses data from the 1988 wave of the National Educational Longitudinal Survey to show that" black children who...
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Medicaid and Medical Care for Children
Currie, Janet - 1993
Data from the National Longitudinal Surveys are used to compare the medical care received by children covered by Medicaid with that of other similar children. The longitudinal dimension of the data is exploited as we examine differences between siblings and repeated observations on the same...
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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 …
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