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The first 2,000 days and child skills : evidence from a randomized experiment of home visiting
Doyle, Orla - 2017
visiting, group parenting, and baby massage, to disadvantaged Irish families raises children's cognitive and socio … by gender and stronger gains for firstborns. The results also suggest that socioeconomic gaps in children's skills are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011685716
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Parental Beliefs About Returns to Educational Investments - The Later the Better?
Boneva, Teodora - 2016
In this paper, we study parental beliefs about the technology which maps parental investments into future child outcomes. We document that parents perceive late investments as more productive than early investments, and that they perceive investments in different time periods as substitutes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994673
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How parents' skills affect their time-use with children? : evidence from an RCT experiment in Italy
Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Schiavon, Lucia - 2020
This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on fragile families' time use with their children. Courses …, we find attending the course increased families' awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392182
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How Parents' Skills Affect Their Time-Use with Children? Evidence from an RCT Experiment in Italy
Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Schiavon, Lucia - 2021
This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on fragile families’ time use with their children. Courses …, we find attending the course increased families’ awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314746
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How parenting courses affect families' time-use? : evidence from an RCT experiment in Italy
Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Schiavon, Lucia - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on families' time use with their children in urban areas in … course increased families' awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, reading often to the children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013274014
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Household Bargaining and Spending on Children : Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
Ringdal, Charlotte; Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem - 2017
It is frequently assumed that money in the hands of women leads to better outcomes for their children than money in the … child, but leads to more gender-equal allocations to children. Second, time preferences are important in explaining …-making, and suggest that policy aimed to increase spending on children should target the spouse with preferences most aligned with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014118758
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An Experimental Investigation of Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural India
Kulkarni, Savita - 2018
This study aims to investigate intra-household bargaining outcomes elicited in an artefactual field experiment design where participants completed a purchase task of real commodities. Married couples separately expressed their initial preferences over commodities. The bargaining process in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935373
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Parenthood and risk preferences
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015
This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498567
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Parenthood and risk preferences
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015
This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502791
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Parenthood and risk preferences
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015
This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526382