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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...

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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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Do Investments in Universal Early Education Pay Off? Long-term Effects of Introducing Kindergartens into Public Schools

Cascio, Elizabeth U. - 2009

In the 1960s and 1970s, many states introduced grants for school districts offering kindergarten programs. This paper … early education. I find that white children aged five after the typical state reform were less likely to be high school … receives most empirical support is that state funding for kindergarten crowded out participation in federally-funded early …

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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Peer Effects in Early Education

Neidell, Matthew - 2008

We examine peer effects in early education by estimating value added models with school fixed effects that control …

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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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Testing the Sorting Model of Education

Weiss, Andrew - 1984

ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that the sorting effect of education is an important determinant of …

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Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

Collins, William J. - 2003

African-Americans entered the post-Civil War era with extremely low levels of exposure to schooling. Relying primarily on micro-level census data, we describe racial differences in literacy rates, school attendance, years of educational attainment, age-in-grade distributions, spending per pupil,...

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Sorting, Education and Inequality

Fernandez, Raquel - 2001

This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …

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Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth

Hanushek, Eric A. - 1995

Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...

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