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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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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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The Role of Childcare Challenges in the US Jobs Market Recovery During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Furman, Jason; Kearney, Melissa Schettini; Powell, Wilson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine how much of the overall decline in employment between the beginning of 2020 and 2021 can be explained by excess job loss among parents of young children, and mothers specifically. Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we confirm that, in general, mothers with young...
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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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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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The Impact of School and Childcare Closures on Labor Market Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Garcia, Kairon Shayne D.; Cowan, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A substantial fraction of schools and childcare facilities in the United States closed their in-person operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. These closures may carry substantial costs to the families of affected children. In this paper, we examine the impact of school and childcare closures...
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Effects of Daily School and Care Disruptions During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child Mental Health
Gassman-Pines, Anna; Ananat, Elizabeth; Fitz-Henley, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected American children, including disruptions to their care and school settings. Children attending in-person child care or school have contended with unpredictable closures and time in remote school, which in turn is subject to its own types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814434
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Public School Access or Stay-at-Home Partner : Factors Mitigating the Adverse Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Academic Parents
Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchkov, Olga; Stearns, Jenna - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic created unexpected and prolonged disruptions to childcare access. Using survey evidence on time use by academic researchers before and after the pandemic, we analyze the extent to which greater access to either school-based or partner-provided childcare mitigated the severe...
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