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Following in your parents' footsteps? Empirical analysis of matched parent-offspring test scores
Brown, Sarah; McIntosh, Steven; Taylor, Karl - 2009
In this paper, we explore whether an intergenerational relationship exists between the reading and mathematics test scores, taken at age 7, of a cohort of individuals born in 1958 and the equivalent test scores of their offspring measured in 1991. Our results suggest that how the parent performs...
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The duration of paid parental leave and children's scholastic performance
Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268959
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The duration of paid parental leave and cildren's scholastic performance
Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273952
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Inequality during the early years: Child outcomes and readiness to learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2011
This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282315
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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2009
-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298791
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Noncognitive Skills, School Achievements and Educational Dropout (Revised Version)
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2010
-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600953
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Sports and child development
Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - 2011
Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children's skill...
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The impact of family composition on educational achievement
Chen, Stacey H.; Chen, Yen-Chien; Liu, Jin-Tan - 2014
offer new evidence of sibling rivalry and gender bias in family settings that has not been detected in the literature. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335624
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Human capital development and parental investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015
In this paper we estimate production functions for cognition and health throughout four stages of childhood from 5 … function include parental background, prior child cognition and health and child investments. We allow investments to be … endogenous and they depend on local prices and household income, as well as on the exogenous determinants of cognition and health …
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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
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