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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 environments for the second generation leading to positive … that have dominated popular discussions of early childhood programs. Children of the first-generation treatment group have …
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains …
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from high-quality demonstration programs targeted toward disadvantaged children shows beneficial effects. Returns exceed … Start has beneficial effects on disadvantaged children compared to home alternatives. Universal programs benefit … disadvantaged children …
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We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by … causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and …
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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
Displaced children often face educational disadvantages in their host countries. Statelessness might be one of the … birthright citizenship for Venezuelan children in Colombia to analyze the effect of ending statelessness on educational … effects on the participation rates of children below six years old. I explain these results by demand- and supply-side factors …
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relying on forecasts. Adult outcomes on the participants' children and siblings allow us to quantify spillover benefits. The …
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. The experiment provided parents of preschool students with text messages to support their children's learning at home …. After 15 weeks of intervention, the cognitive skills of children whose parents received the text messages rose 0 …
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