later-born children. Taken together, these patterns are consistent with a reputation model of strategic parenting. … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

transfer policies to poor families significantly boost child outcomes. Mentoring, parenting, and attachment are essential …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

Parents now engage in much more intensive parenting styles compared to a few decades ago. Today's parents supervise … their children more closely, spend more time interacting with them, help much more with homework, and place more emphasis on … educational achievement. More intensive parenting has also led to more unequal parenting: highly educated parents with high …

child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …

phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …

This paper experimentally estimates medium term impacts of a large-scale and low-cost parenting program targeting poor … group that was offered eight weekly group parenting sessions, and a third group that was offered the same eight group … sessions plus two sessions of guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading …

This paper experimentally evaluates a large-scale and low-cost parenting program targeting poor families in Chile … eight weekly group parenting sessions, and a third group that was offered the same eight group sessions plus two sessions of … guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading. Three years after the end …