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We present evidence from a randomized experiment testing the impacts of a six-month early childhood home-visiting program on child outcomes at school entry. Two and a half years after completion of the program, we find persistent effects on child working memory - a key skill of executive...
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We analyze the long-run and intergenerational effects of a large-scale school building project (INPRES) that took place in Indonesia between 1974 and 1979. Specifically, we link the geographic rollout of INPRES to longitudinal data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey covering two generations....
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parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child perforÿ­mance. We find no effects on …' mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of … between matÿ­ernal education and school outcomes. …
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diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of …
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Recent research has reported positive effects on schooling due to in utero protection from iodine deficiency resulting from iodized oil capsule distribution in Tanzania. We revisit the Tanzanian experience by investigating how these effects differ over time and across surveys; across different...
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This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
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Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is wellstudied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This...
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women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …
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Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …
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Parenting decisions are among the most consequential choices people make throughout their lives. Starting with the work … how parents' actions affect their children. In recent years, the literature on parenting within economics has increasingly … have developed models to understand the choice between various parenting styles that were first explored in the …
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