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This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...
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This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-term effect of JU enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428057
The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early … average impact of either intervention on anemia or mental development. However, we find a cross-productivity of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012414808
The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early … average impact of either intervention on anemia or mental development. However, we find a cross-productivity of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238460
The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early … average impact of either intervention on anemia or mental development. However, we find a cross-productivity of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012250089
welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany. …
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mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. At the end of the first year of the program, children …
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This paper presents results from a randomized evaluation of a home visiting program for disadvantaged first-time mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. I analysis the impact of the intervention on maternal employment, school attendance, child care use, fertility,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239738
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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child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ), especially for socially disadvantaged children. The intervention … disadvantaged children, in particular as a consequence of unfavorable preschool characteristics. …
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