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maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …
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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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childhood education falls short of sufficiently answering fundamental questions about what works for whom and why. A tighter …
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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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provide more cognitive stimulation to children with higher education polygenic scores. This pattern varies by socioeconomic …
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schools from kindergarten to third grade. This paper evaluates the long-term impacts of STAR by linking the experimental data … to administrative records. We first demonstrate that kindergarten test scores are highly correlated with outcomes such as …, students who had a more experienced teacher in kindergarten have higher earnings. Third, an analysis of variance reveals …
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support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …
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We examine the impact of state child care regulations on the supply and quality of care in child care markets. We exploit panel data on both individual establishments and local markets to control for state, time, and, where possible, establishment-specific fixed effects to mitigate the potential...
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where societies implement the Kindergarten rule of sustainable growth.' Following the Kindergarten rule means implementing …
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ages. We study effects of a text-based program for parents of kindergarten children, distinguishing a general program from …
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