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that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and …
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This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills. It focuses on children 7 months old to 6 … years old in Chile in 2012 and Nicaragua in 2013. A focus on young children allowed for ruling out a set of environmental …
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children can amplify existing inequalities across generations. Third, inequality can exist even within families, and the …
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mental health but observed a decrease in physical violence against children among female caregivers. While these findings …
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women's over a large range of wages. However, women's marginal willingness to pay more than doubles after the birth of a … dataset for West Germany to flexibly account for both unobserved individual heterogeneity and changes dependent on wages and … children. We find that an average female childless worker is willing to give up daily e0.27 per kilometre (0.4% of the daily …
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help from government transfers and lower cost associated with having fewer other children, or due to a stronger savings …
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This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children …
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that an RCT evaluation of a short-run small-scale early childhood program in the model predicts effects on children …
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development (namely, language, cognition, and socio-emotional skills) of children 0-5 in five Latin American countries (Chile … implementing evidence-based interventions at scale to improve developmental outcomes of the most disadvantaged children in society. …
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This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...
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