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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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parents of school-aged children in two-parent opposite-gender families. In line with existing evidence, we find that mothers … industries and occupations in which parents worked prior to the lockdown. Nor can they be explained by gender differences in …
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impact of nudging parents on attendance and learning for school-age children; this is the first experiment looking at both … app to send messages to parents of preschool children. The intervention had no average treatment effect on attendance, but …. Behavioral interventions seeking to reduce absenteeism and raise test scores usually nudge parents on both the importance of …
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household behavior have failed to account for the differential behavior of parents with respect to skill formation of their … gradient, as more educated parents spend more time on skill formation than their less educated counterparts. This pattern is … observed across all countries. The paper further extends this literature by showing that more educated parents also provide …
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. The experiment provided parents of preschool students with text messages to support their children's learning at home …. After 15 weeks of intervention, the cognitive skills of children whose parents received the text messages rose 0 …
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When deciding how to allocate their time among different types of investment in their children, parents weigh up the … perceived benefits and costs of different activities. During the COVID-19 outbreak parents had to consider a new cost dimension … collecting rich data on a sample of first-time parents in England during the first lockdown, including elicitation of perceived …
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We evaluate the effects of a 10-week intervention that randomly provided access to remote coaching to parents of …, education coaches offered guidance and encouragement to parents in activities designed to accelerate the development of core …
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