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The 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). By utilizing a quasi-experimental study design we estimate the causal short-term effect of JU enrollment...
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In the past 15 years, four-year-olds' enrollment in state-funded pre-kindergarten in the United States has doubled, and advocates have pushed for further expansion. Although research has shown that pre-K programs can have important benefits, most existing studies have focused on small or...
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In this paper we use a Multi-Cutoff Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design to evaluate spillover effects of students enrolled into Peruvian public magnet schools, Colegios de Alto Rendimiento (COAR), on educational outcomes of younger students in their schools of origin. Using administrative data...
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significantly for children of all backgrounds. There is, however, complete fade-out for children with highly educated parents. Given … positive longrun effects for children with low-educated parents, the treatment reduces child skill gaps across parents …This paper studies the interaction between parental and public inputs in children's skill formation. We perform a …
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We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for … individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that …
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ideal. This circumstance may cause negative attitudes towards single parents, who are also among the most vulnerable groups … of society. Motivated by these findings, we study whether schools are more reluctant to interact with single parents than … with heterosexual couples. We conduct a field experiment with schools during the children's pre-registration period. We …
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The school building is a built environment in the physical learning environment. How it is perceived by students …, teachers, leaders, parents, community and interacts with content, resources and societal progress have important implications …
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Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children … growing up under more favorable circumstances. We examine the impact of a three-year program ("Coaching for Teaching … intervention was to strengthen the teachers' professional development, e.g. through coaching and further training, and thereby …
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This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with …-added models are found to bias the learning premium upward. An instrumental variable model confirms a positive causal learning … premium. Subjectspecific learning premiums for Kiswahili, English, and mathematics are 0.28, 0.39, and 0.50 standard …
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