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The life-cycle benefits of an influential early childhood program

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; … - 2016

This paper estimates the long-term benefits from an influential early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. The program was evaluated by random assignment and followed participants through their mid-30s. It has substantial beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor...

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Economic perspectives on the implications of public child care and schooling for educational outcomes in childhood and adult life

Zierow, Larissa - 2017

Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize winner James Heckman shows that skills are built from the early childhood on and increase the returns of later educational inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741826

Improving reading skills by encouraging children to read : a randomized evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines

Abeberese, Ama Baafra; Kumler, Todd J.; Linden, Leigh L. - 2011

We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly increases the propensity of children to read, causing...

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Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read : A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines

Abeberese, Ama Baafra - 2011

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Access to Public Schools and the Education of Migrant Children in China

Chen, Yuanyuan - 2012

A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household … registration (HuKou), and turn to privately-operated migrant schools. This paper examines the consequences of such a partially … migrant students who are unable to enroll in public schools perform significantly worse than their more fortunate counterparts …

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School integration of refugee children: evidence from the largest refugee group in any country

Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet; Dayıoğlu, Meltem - 2021

Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is wellstudied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This...

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School integration of refugee children: evidence from the largest refugee group in any country

Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet; Dayıoğlu, Meltem - 2021

Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012620009

When the Cat's Away... The Effects of Spousal Migration on Investments on Children

Rizzica, Lucia - 2014

This paper analyzes the effects of parental migration on children left behind in order to understand whether and how the effects of migration on children depend on which of their parents migrates. I describe the migration of one of the spouses as a sequential game in which the spouse who...

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Incentives and children's dietary choices : a field experiment in primary schools

Belot, Michèle; James, Jonathan G.; Nolen, Patrick - 2015

We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary …

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Incentives and Children's Dietary Choices : A Field Experiment in Primary Schools

Belot, Michèle - 2015

We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013575

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