the names of the parents. We track the response rate from schools, the time to reply and the quality of the reply. We find …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

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 …-year-olds. However, more than a third of children enrolled in preschool programs have insufficient attendance, with absenteeism higher in …

regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … household behavior have failed to account for the differential behavior of parents with respect to skill formation of their … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education …

. 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 …

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 … about risks and returns play for the allocation of time with children during the pandemic? We answer this question by …

We evaluate the effects of a 10-week intervention that randomly provided access to remote coaching to parents of … preschool children over the summer break in Peru. In response to learning losses during school closures induced by COVID-19 …, education coaches offered guidance and encouragement to parents in activities designed to accelerate the development of core …

Play during early childhood is key to stimulating children's physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development … the development of emotional and cognitive skills in children. The study also found a significant effect of 0.19 SD on the … Developmental Milestones Checklist for children of caregivers with the lowest level of parental investment at the baseline. Our …