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We present evidence from a randomized experiment testing the impacts of a six-month early childhood home-visiting program on child outcomes at school entry. Two and a half years after completion of the program, we find persistent effects on child working memory - a key skill of executive...
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Parents now engage in much more intensive parenting styles compared to a few decades ago. Today's parents supervise … educational achievement. More intensive parenting has also led to more unequal parenting: highly educated parents with high … incomes have increased their parenting investments the most, leading to a growing "parenting gap" in society. These trends can …
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This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on families' time use with their children in urban areas in …
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We present evidence from a randomized experiment testing the impacts of a six-month early childhood home-visiting program on child outcomes at school entry. Two and a half years after completion of the program, we find persistent effects on child working memory - a key skill of executive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479027
household production model suggests that the possibility of jointly supplying parenting to twins helps explain those differences. …
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Leveraging underused information on child discipline methods, this study explores the relationship between parental educational similarity and violent childrearing practices, testing a new potential pathway through which parental educational similarity may relate to child outcomes. The study...
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This paper analyzes the role of parenting styles, a recent topic in the economic literature. Using a novel latent class … model, we investigate which parenting styles can be observed in the data and how parenting styles are related to parents …' socioeconomic status and household composition. We identify four parenting styles. An authoritarian and an authoritative style …
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This paper describes a policy experiment implemented in Costa Rica to increase learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The experiment provided parents of preschool students with text messages to support their children's learning at home. After 15 weeks of intervention, the cognitive skills of...
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, social, and economic costs and increasing the risk of perpetuating the cycle of violence across generations. Parenting … programs have improved parenting practices in high-income countries. However, evidence for LMICs is sparse. This study … evaluates an intervention to reduce coercive parenting implemented by the Ministry of National Security of Jamaica, which …
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parenting styles and parents’ subjective well-being explain the relationship between poverty and child behavior problems. The … results show that certain parenting styles, such as psychological control, as well as mothers’ life satisfaction partially …
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