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Trajectories of early childhood skill development and maternal mental health
Sevim, Dilek; Baranov, Victoria; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322487
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Trajectories of early childhood skill development and maternal mental health
Sevim, Dilek; Baranov, Victoria; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014323701
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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436069
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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447269
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Motherhood and the allocation of talent
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021
In this paper we show that motherhood triggers changes in the allocation of talent in the labor market besides the well-known effects on gender gaps in employment and earnings. We use an event study approach with retrospective data for 29 countries drawn from SHARE to assess the labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582323
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The economic value of childhood socio-emotional skills
Del Bono, Emilia; Etheridge, Ben; Garcia, Paul - 2024
We investigate the relationship between child socio-emotional skills and labour market outcomes using longitudinal data from the 1970 British Cohort Study. We perform a novel factor analysis of child skills and capture four latent dimensions, representing "attention", "conduct", "emotional", and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015070504
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Does education strengthen the life skills of adolescents? : secondary and higher education are windows of opportunity for boosting students’ life skills
Schurer, Stefanie - 2017
Life skills, sometimes referred to as noncognitive skills or personality traits (e.g. conscientiousness or locus of control-the belief to influence events and their outcomes), affect labor market productivity. Policy makers and academics are thus exploring whether such skills should be taught at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662142
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Intergenerational transmission of inequality : maternal endowments, investments, and birth outcomes
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - 2023
Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391200
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Mothers, parenting and the impact of separation
Platt, Lucinda; Haux, Tina; Rosenberg, Racchel - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342809
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Do changes in employment and hours worked contribute to a decreasing in the mental health of single mothers during a period of welfare reform in the UK? : a longitudinal analysis (...
Simpson, Julija; Bambra, Clare; Brown, Heather W. - 2021
We investigate the role of employment in explaining changes in the mental health of single mothers compared to … partnered mothers and single childless women during the period of welfare reform in the UK. We employ a time allocation … health for all women but the association was not statistically significant for single mothers. Mental health inequalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802339