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This paper evaluates the impacts of a public program that introduced access to part-time childcare centers for children … children's and parental outcomes. Our identification strategy exploits the original randomization and the distance to the …
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regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education … better care for their children, thus increasing the socioeconomic gap. …
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access to piped water or sanitation, and traced out the benefits to children, including surviving children, over time. …
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Even as Trinidad and Tobago seeks productive diversification away from the energy sector, the process underlying the country s productive development policies (PDP) is in a state of transition from state-directed industrial policy to a newer approach with extensive private-public participation....
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focus is on child care for children aged 0-3, because this is a critical period for working mothers and their children and … because most European and American households with children aged 3-5 already use child care centers. The paper provides data …
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Tailoring instruction to each student’s needs can produce significant learning gains. However, few programs have successfully implemented this approach. In this paper, we present the results of a randomized evaluation of a program that uses an inquiry with an individualized scaffolding...
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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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preschool children over the summer break in Peru. In response to learning losses during school closures induced by COVID-19 …
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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 …
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