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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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Reading to young children : a head-start in life?
Kalb, Guyonne; Ours, Jan C. van - In: Economics of education review 40 (2014), pp. 1-24
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It's All in the Stars : The Chinese Zodiac and the Effects of Parental Investments on Offspring's Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Development
Tan, Chih Ming - 2018
The importance of (early) parental investments in children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes is a question of deep … children born just before and just after the cutoff for a “lucky” versus “nonlucky” zodiac sign, we find that parents …
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Child development in the early years : parental investment and the changing dynamics of different domains
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Bernal, Raquel; Giannola, Michele; … - 2021
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Are children's socio-emotional skills shaped by parental health shocks?
Garcia-Miralles, Esteban; Gensowski, Miriam - 2020
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Is Care by Grandparents or Parents Better for Children's Non-Cognitive Skills? Evidence on Locus of Control from China
Ao, Xiang; Chen, Xuan; Zhao, Zhong - 2021
This study investigates the effect of grandparental care on children's locus of control (LOC), which is an important … non-cognitive skill that affects children's future development. We use data from the China Family Panel Studies, which is … choice. We find that children in the care of their grandparents have more external LOC than children in the care of their …
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Parenting styles, socioeconomic status and (non-)cognitive skills
Kugler, Philipp; Kroczek, Martin; Zühlke, Anne - 2022
that constraints in both time and (non-)cognitive skills of the parents restrict their choice. We find that children … children from different socioeconomic origins. …
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Policies for early childhood skills formation : accounting for parental choices and non-cognitive skills
Morchio, Iacopo - 2022
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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021
connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …
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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills : an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665122