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We test whether adverse childhood experiences - exposure to parental maltreatment and its indirect effect on health - are associated with age 30 personality traits. We use rich longitudinal data from a large, representative cohort of young US Americans and exploit differences across siblings to...
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We investigate the time investment in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities by parents with different educational attainment. In a second step we also investigate this effect for three different child age cohorts. Past research shows that the degree of success in the labour market is...
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document that 3-4 years after the intervention, the children who received training have a roughly 16 percentage points higher …
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document that three years after the intervention the children who received training have a roughly 16 percentage points higher …
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Understanding who in the population is psychologically resilient in the face of major life events, and who is not, is important for policies that target reductions in disadvantage. In this paper we construct a measure of adult resilience, document its distribution, and test its predictability by...
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Bedeutung von Humankapital für regionale Entwicklung in Subsahara-Afrika. Die Studienergebnisse suggerieren eine stärkere … Korrelation von Entwicklung mit kognitiven Fähigkeiten als mit quantitativen Maßen von Humankapital wie die Anzahl der Schuljahre …
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development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means …-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings … study the reform effects on children's language skills, motor skills, socio-emotional stability, and school readiness using …
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While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of … no evidence that starting child care earlier affects children's outcomes in the shortor medium-run. Our precise estimates …
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