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We study the social integration of ethnic minority children in the context of an early childhood program conducted in … Turkey aimed at preparing 5-year-old native and Syrian refugee children for primary school. We randomly assign children to … groups with varying ethnic composition and find that exposure to children of the other ethnicity leads to an increase in the …
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children. Of the 200 million children who do not reach their developmental potential worldwide, 66 percent live in South Asia … that contribute to the growth and development of children in early childhood. There are also large gaps in teachers …' understanding and practice of classroom accommodations for children with disabilities. The paper illustrates that educators, who …
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We investigate the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of the two main investments that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort costs and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive,...
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direct effect. This is true for the full sample of children, for boys and girls and for children in households whose mother …
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sessions plus two sessions of guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading … the socio-emotional development of children of families participating in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0 ….43 and 0.54 standard deviation, respectively) relative to children of nonparticipating families. The treatments also led to …
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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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the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are …
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the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we measure parental investments by considering the time parents spend with …
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