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Extracurricular educational programs and school readiness : evidence from a quasi-experiment with preschool children
Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2016
This 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). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434454
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Extracurricular educational programs and school readiness : evidence from a quasi-experiment with preschool children
Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2014
This 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). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-term effect of JU enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428057
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Extracurricular educational programs and school readiness : evidence from a quasi-experiment with preschool children ; conference paper
Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491090
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Extracurricular educational programs and school readiness : evidence from a quasi-experiment with preschool children
Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 52 (2017) 4, pp. 1181-1204
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943993
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"If you have a kid that's ready to learn:" : the kindergarten transition experiences of urban, low-income, African-American preschoolers
Jarrett, Robin L.; Coba-Rodriguez, Sarai - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 23 (2019) 3, pp. 229-252
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180268
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Paid parental leave and child development : evidence from the 2007 German parental benefit reform and administrative data
Huebener, Mathias; Kuehnle, Daniel; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017
This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619598
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Effects of a school readiness intervention for children in foster care on oppositional and aggressive behaviors in kindergarten
Pears, Katherine C.; Kim, Hyoun K.; Fisher, Philip A. - In: Children and Youth Services Review 34 (2012) 12, pp. 2361-2366
children before kindergarten entry. One hundred two children were randomly assigned to the KITS intervention and 90 were … randomly assigned to the foster care services as usual comparison group. At the end of the kindergarten year, teachers were … effects on kindergarten classroom behavior. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010875017
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Childcare Policy and Cognitive Outcomes of Children: Results from a Large Scale Quasi-Experiment on Universal Childcare in Canada
Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; Verstraete, Matthieu - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008
kindergarten). The study uses 6 cycles of biennial data drawn from Statistics Canada's National Longitudinal Survey of Children and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015237
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Reducing the gender gap in early learning : evidence from a field experiment in Norwegian preschools
Fidjeland, Andreas; Rege, Mari; Solli, Ingeborg Foldøy; … - In: European economic review : EER 154 (2023), pp. 1-13
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438215
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Impact of Early Childhood Care and Education on Children's Preschool Cognitive Development: Canadian Results from a Large Quasi-experiment
Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; Verstraete, Matthieu - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006
-day kindergarten for 5-year-old children. No such important policy changes for preschool (including kindergarten) children were enacted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670274