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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...
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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This paper presents results from a randomized evaluation of a home visiting program for disadvantaged first-time mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. I analysis the impact of the intervention on maternal employment, school attendance, child care use, fertility,...
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Early childhood education programs have been found to effectively promote children’s social and cognitive development … find that the expansion of subsidized child care has led to improved health-seeking behavior when children get sick …
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We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of 2012. The treated were exposed to municipally offered infant-toddler (ages 0–3) and preschool...
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor in- comes, with greater …
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, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …
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The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early … average impact of either intervention on anemia or mental development. However, we find a cross-productivity of children …
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