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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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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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Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and child care, using administrative data covering the labor market and birth histories of Austrian workers over more than half a century. We start by...
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provide more cognitive stimulation to children with higher education polygenic scores. This pattern varies by socioeconomic …
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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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In an effort to enhance the quality of early childhood education (ECE) at scale, nearly all U.S. states have recently …
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We extend earlier research evaluating the Quebec Family Policy by providing the first evidence on the distributional effects of universal child care on two specific developmental outcomes. Our analysis uncovers substantial policy relevant heterogeneity in the estimated effect of access to...
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This paper organizes and synthesizes the literature on early childhood education and childcare. In it, we go beyond …
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Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long-run benefits. We test the symmetry of this contention by studying the effects of a sizeable negative shock to non-cognitive skills due to the introduction of universal child care in...
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