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Child-centered, play-based education and future competency
Kim, Inkyung - 2020
The child-centered, play-based curriculum enhances young children's problem-solving skills and socio-emotional competences. As such, in order to firmly establish it within the education system and bolster its effectiveness, guardians and teachers must collaborate to support children's play...
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Non-cognitive skills and the quality of early education - four essays in applied microeconomics
Camehl, Georg - 2018
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The educational and labor market returns to preschool attendance in Austria
Fessler, Pirmin; Schneebaum, Alyssa - In: Applied economics 51 (2019) 32, pp. 3531-3550
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The lasting effects of early childhood education on promoting the skills and social mobility of disadvantaged African Americans
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; … - 2021
This paper demonstrates multiple beneficial impacts of a program promoting inter-generational mobility for disadvantaged African-American children and their children. The program improves outcomes of the first-generation treatment group across the life cycle, which translates into better family...
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Early childhood intervention : rationale, timing, and efficacy
Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Heckman, James J.; Tremblay, … - 2007
This paper provides a brief review of the economic rationale for investing in early childhood. It discusses the optimal timing of intervention, with reference to recent work in developmental neuroscience, and asks how early is early? It motivates the need for early intervention by providing an...
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Effects of early childhood intervention on child development and early skill formation : evidence from a randomized controlled trail
Sandner, Malte - 2013
This paper presents results from a randomized evaluation of a home visiting program for disadvantaged first-time mothers and their families implemented in Germany. 12 months after birth, the intervention increases infants' cognitive development by 0.18 SD. However, the effect fades out after 24...
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Gender-specific effects of early childhood intervention : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Sandner, Malte; Jungmann, Tanja - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 45 (2017), pp. 59-78
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Early childhood education and care in Ireland and Northern Ireland
Curristan, Sarah; McGinnity, Frances; Russell, Helen; … - 2023
the importance of ECEC in both Ireland and Northern Ireland, with considerable recent energy and investment in early years … policy in Ireland, and a renewed impetus in policy development in Northern Ireland given by the recent Fair Start report … Underachievement in Northern Ireland, 2021). This report draws on survey and administrative data, as well as in-depth interviews with …
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The effect of early childhood language training programs on the contemporary formation of grammar skills : conference paper
Kamhöfer, Daniel A. - 2014 - Preliminary
While there is a big literature on the benefits of pre-school education, only little is known why kindergarten attendance improves later-life outcomes. This is partly because most studies analyze the effect of complete 2 years pre-school programs. In order to shed light into the black box of...
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Preventing criminal minds : early education access and adult offending behavior
Brutti, Zelda; Montolio, Daniel - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 191 (2021), pp. 97-126
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