-old children in Turkey. As the source of exogenous variation in maternal schooling, we use mothers' exposure to the 1997 education … mothers' educational attainment and a rise in children's readiness to learn. Our finding is novel because it measures … suggestive evidence of a positive impact on children's social-emotional development. Examining the channels, we find that both …

-old children in Turkey. As the source of exogenous variation in maternal schooling, we use mothers' exposure to the 1997 education … mothers' educational attainment and a rise in children's readiness to learn. Our finding is novel because it measures … suggestive evidence of a positive impact on children's social-emotional development. Examining the channels, we find that both …

By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a …

This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools … is measured by the school's average achievement test score at age 12. Our results indicate that children in high …

child cognitive outcomes, allowing the effect of formal childcare to be different for children from different family … step, we simulate how an increase in formal childcare attendance can affect inequalities across children. Our results show … that childcare attendance has a positive impact on child cognitive outcomes, which are stronger for children from low socio …