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This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...
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This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-term effect of JU enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428057
child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …
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child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …
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This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996262
. This closes one-third of the gap between children with median and bottom quartile family income, and is about 80 percent as … large as model programs such as Perry Preschool. The long-term impact for disadvantaged children is large despite “fadeout …
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, this paper analyzes the relation between preschool care and the well-being of children and adolescents in Germany. It also … children. Our findings, based on data from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey of Children and Adolescents …, suggest that children who have experienced child care have a slightly lower well-being overall. For migrant children, however …
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. This pattern of reverse selection on gains is driven by unobserved family background characteristics: children from … children with lower (observed and unobserved) gains are more likely to select into child care than children with higher gains … disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment …
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. This pattern of reverse selection on gains is driven by unobserved family background characteristics: children from … children with lower (observed and unobserved) gains are more likely to select into child care than children with higher gains … disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882218