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This paper exploits novel data and empirical methods to examine parental preferences for child care. Specifically, we analyze consumer reviews of child care businesses posted on the website Yelp.com. A key advantage of Yelp is that it contains a large volume of unstructured information about a...
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early childhood linguistic and socioemotional development. - Improving parental roles can reduce the gap between children … socioemotional development of children when parents maintain responsiveness and are less demanding as their children grow older. - It … booklets and videos at different ministries and providing the necessary knowledge and skills that suit the children's age and …
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This study investigates whether the expansion of day-care places for under-three-year-old children in East and West …
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only for children around the median of the attendance rate baseline distribution (between deciles 4 and 6). The … intervention was ineffective for children with very high or very low pre-treatment absenteeism levels. Our results, although … encouraging, emphasize the limits of these types of interventions, especially for children in families where barriers to reduce …
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child working memory - a key skill of executive functioning that plays a central role in children's development of cognitive … preschool enrolment decisions. Children were enrolled earlier and in higher quality preschools, the latter reflecting a shift in …
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-year-olds. However, more than a third of children enrolled in preschool programs have insufficient attendance, with absenteeism higher in … schools in lower socioeconomic areas and among younger preschool children. This paper presents the results of a behavioral … impact of nudging parents on attendance and learning for school-age children; this is the first experiment looking at both …
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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 …
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