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We study the effect of family income and maternal hours worked on child development. Our instrumental variable analysis suggests different results for cognitive and behavioral development. An additional 1,000 USD in family income improves cognitive development by 4.4 percent of a standard...
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support working mothers and their children. …
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We study how grouping students of different grades into a single class (multigrading) affects children's cognitive … fifth graders. The positive impact of multigrading only appears for children sharing their class with peers from higher …
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We study how multigrading, which is mixing students of different grades into a single class, affects children … has zero effect for fifth graders. The positive impact of multigrading for second graders appears to be driven by children …
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university maternity hospital of Basle in the period 1912-1920. Birth weight of children from medium SEP families decreased …
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We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom …-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely … to complete academic high school and enroll in university. Two mechanisms drive these results. Treated children show …
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Do people conform to social norms at least partly to signal their social preferences? Using a vignette experiment, we find that parents who do not marry off their under-age daughters in Malawian villages where child marriage is prevalent are perceived as less altruistic, reciprocal, and...
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document that 3-4 years after the intervention, the children who received training have a roughly 16 percentage points higher …
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find substantial transmission of patience from parents to children, which is insensitive to the inclusion of comprehensive … sets of administratively reported controls and persists as children age. We further explore heterogeneity in the … influence children's traits: parenting values and parental involvement. Our results show that, in contrast to authoritative …
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.1 percentage points, increased in 1996 by 7.2 percentage points and declined again by 6.4 percentage points in 2000. None of these …
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