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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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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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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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Child Skill Production : Accounting for Parental and Market-Based Time and Goods Investments

Caucutt, Elizabeth M. - 2020

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Introducing CogX : A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2020

randomized to receive a new preschool and parent education program focused on cognitive and non-cognitive skills (CogX) or to a … control group that did not receive preschool education. In addition to a typical academic year (9 month) program, we also … Kindergarten. Both programs, including the shortened version, significantly improved cognitive test scores by about one quarter of …

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Child-Driven Parenting : Differential Early Childhood Investment by Offspring Genotype

Breinholt, Asta - 2020

provide more cognitive stimulation to children with higher education polygenic scores. This pattern varies by socioeconomic …

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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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Games Parents and Adolescents Play : Risky Behaviors, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers

Hao, Lingxin - 2005

This paper examines reputation formation in intra-familial interactions. We consider parental reputation in a repeated two-stage game in which adolescents decide whether to give a teen birth or drop out of high school, and given adolescent decisions, the parent decides whether to house and...

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More than Just a Nudge : Supporting Kindergarten Parents with Differentiated and Personalized Text-Messages

Doss, Christopher J. - 2018

ages. We study effects of a text-based program for parents of kindergarten children, distinguishing a general program from …

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Birth Order and Delinquency : Evidence from Denmark and Florida

Breining, Sanni N. - 2017

Birth order has been found to have a surprisingly large influence on educational attainment, yet much less is known about the role of birth order on delinquency outcomes such as disciplinary problems in school, juvenile delinquency, and adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative...

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