I exploit the staggered roll-out of a universal early childhood development program in Chile to assess the impact of a … comprehensive approach to early childhood development on outcomes in middle childhood. Using variation across time and … an extensive early childhood development survey. I find positive and significant effects on school performance. The …

is absent for children of preschool age. We also find that (1) boys are more likely to migrate following the reduction in … the number of rural primary schools, (2) migrant households with multiple children tend to take their sons to migrate more … than they take their daughters, and (3) the fact that parents of boy students spend more on their children's education can …

This paper analyzes the impact of comprehensive and universal early childhood development programs on outcomes in … middle childhood. I exploit the birth eligibility cutoff of a pioneer intervention of this type in Chile and use … administrative data on grade point averages, standardized test scores, and an extensive early childhood development survey. Program …

divorce has persistent, and mostly negative, effects on children that differ significantly between boys and girls. Treated …

divorce has persistent, and mostly negative, effects on children that differ significantly between boys and girls. Treated …

divorce has persistent, and mostly negative, effects on children that differ significantly between boys and girls. Treated …

divorce has persistent, and mostly negative, effects on children that differ significantly between boys and girls. Treated …

children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and … and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial …