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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child hea...
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2015
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
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Parental leave and maternal labor supply : parental leave increases the family-work balance, but may have negative impacts on mothers' careers
Kunze, Astrid - 2016
Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514535
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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018
is absent for children of preschool age. We also find that (1) boys are more likely to migrate following the reduction in … the number of rural primary schools, (2) migrant households with multiple children tend to take their sons to migrate more … than they take their daughters, and (3) the fact that parents of boy students spend more on their children's education can …
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The creativity premium : exploring the link between childhood creativity and life outcomes
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2023 - This version: April 5, 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383612
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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - In: The journal of development studies 57 (2021) 12, pp. 2077-2094
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The long run impact of a macroeconomic crisis on schooling outcomes
Sharma, Anisha - In: The journal of development studies 58 (2022) 1, pp. 115-144
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Parental leave and maternal employment
Kunze, Astrid - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012939928
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The creativity premium
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2021
Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...
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Skill formation and the trouble with child non-cognitive skill measures
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293676
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A note on the importance of normalizations in dynamic latent factor models of skill formation
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293678