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assessed by the child's teacher, predicts internality in middle age for female and socioeconomically disadvantaged children …. Parental engagement in children's education is a malleable factor, and thus is a promising target for public policy …
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) - children's confrontation with maltreatment and household dysfunction - in shaping lifetime opportunities. However, this is the … differences in later-life earnings between children with and without neglect exposure can be fully explained by observable … protect their children is likely to be high. Our findings contribute to a wider discussion on the multidimensionality and …
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This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
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This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
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