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earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …
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, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on outcomes for the children concerned. There are good reasons for … thinking that CS could leverage better outcomes than other forms of income support and, using a sample of dependent children in …
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, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on outcomes for the children concerned. There are good reasons for … thinking that CS could leverage better outcomes than other forms of income support and, using a sample of dependent children in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207399
-Samuelson effect), and thus on the incentive for parents to invest in their children's education, associated with international …
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effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … gestation, i.e. born at least 10 weeks earlier). Children born moderately preterm (i.e. born up to 5 weeks early) suffer no ill … school environment is very important for the outcomes of preterm born children, such that those born extremely preterm that …
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explained by improvements in early parental investment. This study demonstrates that boosting children's early cognitive skills …
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We estimate a dynamic model of multidimensional human capital development from childhood through adolescence and into early adulthood for a Peruvian cohort born in 1994. We exploit multiple measures of cognitive and socio-emotional skills and a latent factor structure to estimate flexible skills...
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investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … children quantity-quality trade-off proposed by Becker that has been investigated only for a few countries because of data … limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy - even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …
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Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to … impact that the transfer had on the language and mathematical competencies of the children of eligible mothers at the end of …
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Can governments leverage existing service-delivery platforms to scale early childhood development (ECD) programs? We experimentally study a large-scale home-visiting intervention providing materials and counseling --- integrated into Bangladesh's national nutrition program without extra...
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