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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child hea...
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2015
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433879
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The long run impact of a macroeconomic crisis on schooling outcomes
Sharma, Anisha - In: The journal of development studies 58 (2022) 1, pp. 115-144
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821804
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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulatio : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child heal...
Daysal, N. Meltem; Hirani, Jonas Cuzulan - 2021
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254359
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Can we grow with our children? : the effects of a comprehensive early childhood development program
Rude, Britta - 2022
I exploit the staggered roll-out of a universal early childhood development program in Chile to assess the impact of a comprehensive approach to early childhood development on outcomes in middle childhood. Using variation across time and municipalities, I study outcomes such as school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190728
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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - In: The journal of development studies 57 (2021) 12, pp. 2077-2094
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695442
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The long-term association between child labour and cognitive development
Dinku, Yonatan; Fielding, David - In: Oxford development studies 49 (2021) 1, pp. 66-87
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484467
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Skill formation and the trouble with child non-cognitive skill measures
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293676
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A note on the importance of normalizations in dynamic latent factor models of skill formation
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293678
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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018
is absent for children of preschool age. We also find that (1) boys are more likely to migrate following the reduction in … the number of rural primary schools, (2) migrant households with multiple children tend to take their sons to migrate more … than they take their daughters, and (3) the fact that parents of boy students spend more on their children's education can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946978
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Middle-run impacts of comprehensive early childhood interventions : evidence from a pioneer program in Chile
Rude, Britta - 2022
pronounced for girls and socioeconomically vulnerable children. Impacts on several other child development outcomes also differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013443702