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Child care quality and child development
Araujo, María Caridad; Dormal, Marta; Schady, Norbert … - 2017
, and problem solving skills of infants and toddlers. We show that children have significantly better development outcomes …-quality interactions with children. There is substantial heterogeneity in the effects of caregiver quality on child development. Parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786405
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La calidad de los jardines de cuidado infantil y el desarrollo infantil
Araujo, Maria Caridad; Dormal, Marta; Schady, Norbert … - 2017
, and problem solving skills of infants and toddlers. We show that children have significantly better development outcomes …-quality interactions with children. There is substantial heterogeneity in the effects of caregiver quality on child development. Parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786406
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The psychometric properties of child care quality measures in Ecuadord : lessons for monitoring process variables at scale
López Bóo, Florencia; Dormal, Marta; Weber, Ann - 2016
This paper analyzes four instruments that are widely used to measure the quality of centers serving children ages 0 to … 36 months - the CLASS, the ITERS-R, the CC-IT-HOME, and the MITRCC - and that were administered to a sample of 404 child … measures (ITERSR, CC-IT-HOME, and MITRCC) with each of the dimensions of the CLASS. In addition, we map the subscales of all of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555482
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Child care quality and child development
Araujo, María Caridad; Dormal, Marta; Schady, Norbert … - 2017
, and problem solving skills of infants and toddlers. We show that children have significantly better development outcomes …-quality interactions with children. There is substantial heterogeneity in the effects of caregiver quality on child development. Parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626015
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Little cash to large households : cash transfers and children's care in disadvantaged families in Ghana
Roelen, Keetie; Chettri, Helen Karki; Delap, Emily - In: International social security review 68 (2015) 2, pp. 63-83
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337710
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Delay of gratification and the role of defaults : an experiment with kindergarten children
Sutter, Matthias; Yilmaz, Levent; Oberauer, Manuela - 2015
. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior … is malleable. In a control condition, about 50% of children prefer two rewards the next day over one reward immediately … successfully in promoting delay of gratification. We also find that patience increases with age and that more patient children have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317627
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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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The stress cost of children
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472536
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Parental time investments in children : the role of competition for university places in the UK
Sevilla, Almudena; Borra, Cristina - 2015
investments by college and non-college educated parents and their children widened up precisely during this first period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294094
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Children and female employment in Mongolia
Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2022
Socio- Economic Survey (HSES) to examine the correlation between the presence of children of different age categories in a … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794700