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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes
Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022
children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …
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Early childhood care and cognitive development
Chaparro, Juan; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, Matthew - 2020
This paper combines multiple sources of information on early childhood development in a unified model for analysis of a wide range of early childhood policy interventions. We develop a model of child care in which households decide both the quantities and qualities of maternal and non-maternal...
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Time investment by parents in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities
Sepahvand, Mohammad; Shahbazian, Roujman; Swain, … - 2013
We investigate the time investment in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities by parents with different educational attainment. In a second step we also investigate this effect for three different child age cohorts. Past research shows that the degree of success in the labour market is...
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800572
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704643
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The effect of opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills in early childhood
Cyron, Laura; Schwerdt, Guido; Viarengo, Martina - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 19, pp. 1369-1373
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Learning from one's community: neighborhood effects on non-cognitive skills
Delabroye, Solveig - 2020 - Revised November 23, 2020
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Long-term effects of rainfall shocks on foundational cognitive skills : evidence from Peru
Pazos, Nicolas; Favara, Marta; Sanchez, Alan; Scott, Douglas - 2023
Global warming is changing precipitation patterns, harming communities strongly tied to agricultural production, particularly in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). Whilst the long-term effects of being exposed to rainfall shocks early in life on school achievement tests are...
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Parental investments and children's human capital in low-to-middle-income countries
Behrman, Jere R. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2022
This Element reviews what we know about parental investments and children's human capital in low …-to-middle-income countries (LMICs). First, it presents definitions and a simple analytical framework; then discusses determinants of children …; and concludes with a summary suggesting some positive impacts of parental investments on children's human capital in LMICs …
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Performance of young adults : the importance of different skills (Families, children and human capital formation)
Falch, Torberg; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 60 (2014) 2, pp. 435-462
This article uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to estimate the relationship between different types of skills and performance of young adults. While we follow the literature and consider grades in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a...
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