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Maternity and family leave policy
Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2017
to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world … introduction of short paid and unpaid leave programs can improve children's short- and long-term outcomes. Fourth, while more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607414
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Investing in Infants : The Lasting Effects of Cash Transfers to New Families
Barr, Andrew C.; Eggleston, Jonathan; Smith, Alexander A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, which results in families of otherwise similar children receiving substantially different refunds during the first year of … first child leads to persistent increases in family income that likely contribute to the downstream effects on children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362027
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442547
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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960s and early 1970s that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039967
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A new cost-benefit and rate of return analysis for the Perry Preschool Program : a summary
Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985669
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The changing benefits of early work experience
Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2014
We examine whether the benefits of high school work experience have changed over the last 20 years by comparing effects for the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Our main specifications suggest that the future wage benefits of working 20 hours per week in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403493
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High-quality early-childhood education at scale : evidence from a multisite randomized trial
Dougan, William R.; García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; … - 2023
-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339672
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High-Quality Early-Childhood Education at Scale : Evidence from a Multisite Randomized Trial
Dougan, William R.; García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372451
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The impact of child care subsidies on child well-being : evidence from geographic variation in the distance to social service agencies
Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2010
estimates suggest that children receiving subsidized care in the year before kindergarten score lower on tests of cognitive … time children reach the end of third grade. Our results point to an unintended consequence of a child care subsidy regime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779847
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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675522