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After lead : effects of early interventions for children exposed to lead

Billings, Stephen B.; Schnepel, Kevin T. - 2017

Lead pollution is consistently linked to cognitive and behavioral impairments, yet little is known about the benefits of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates the long-term impacts of early-life interventions (e.g. lead remediation, nutritional...

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Is the future of work childless? : self-employment and fertility

Gonçalves, Judite; Martins, Pedro S. - 2019

The growth of self-employment and in particular gig work may explain part of the declining fertility rates observed in … many countries. This study examines this question drawing on longitudinal data to compare women’s fertility, proxied by … structural aspects of work types, as fertility-related social protection there does not discriminate between self-employment and …

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Population policies, fertility, women's human capital, and child quality

Schultz, T. Paul - 2007

Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to … improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policyinduced changes in fertility on the welfare of … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …

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Paid parental leave and child development : evidence from the 2007 German parental benefit reform and administrative data

Huebener, Mathias; Kuehnle, Daniel; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017

This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth....

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Middle-run impacts of comprehensive early childhood interventions : evidence from a pioneer program in Chile

Rude, Britta - 2022

This paper analyzes the impact of comprehensive and universal early childhood development programs on outcomes in middle childhood. I exploit the birth eligibility cutoff of a pioneer intervention of this type in Chile and use administrative data on grade point averages, standardized test...

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Can we grow with our children? : the effects of a comprehensive early childhood development program

Rude, Britta - 2022

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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Parental leave and children's schooling outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from a large parental leave reform

Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - 2013

This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...

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Is longer maternal care always beneficial? : the impact of a four-year paid parental leave

Bičáková, Alena; Kalísková, Klára - 2022

We study the impact of an extension of paid family leave from 3 to 4 years on child long- term outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences design and comparing the first-affected with the last-unaffected cohorts of children, we find that an additional year of maternal care at the age of 3, which...

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Family planning and women's and children's health : long term consequences of an outreach program in Matlab, Bangladesh

Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - 2012

declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in "surviving fertility" persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades …. -- fertility ; family planning ; health and development ; program evaluation ; Bangladesh …

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Trade-offs between different early childhood interventions : evidence from Ecuador

Rosero, José; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011

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