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Spanish. PRIDI created a new tool, the Engle Scale, for evaluating development in children aged 24 to 59 months in four … children develop and the adult-child interactions predominant within this environment - referred to in this study as the … maternal education. Gaps between the development of children in the top and low extremes in these factors matter. By 59 months …
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This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child's effort and the … effort from their children, which translates into significant gains in achievement. Relative to other interventions …
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This paper presents the results from a randomized controlled trial of Chapter One, an early elementary reading tutoring program that embeds part-time tutors into the classroom to provide short bursts of 1:1 instruction. Eligible kindergarten students were randomly assigned to receive...
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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...
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This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child's effort and the … effort from their children, which translates into significant gains in achievement. Relative to other interventions …
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document that 3–4 years after the intervention, the children who received training have a roughly 16 percentage points higher …
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document that 3-4 years after the intervention, the children who received training have a roughly 16 percentage points higher …
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In this article, we document the evolution of the cognitive skills gap across Canada. We use PISA tests scores over 7 cycles, from 2000 to 2018, to provide an exhaustive portrait of the evolution of the tests scores distribution over time and by parental socioeconomic status. We find that the...
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productive employee and as a constructive participant in civic life. This Article uses vulnerability theory as a heuristic frame …
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The recent development of the Early Learning Outcome Measure (ELOM), a culturally appropriate test for children aged 50 … to 69 months for all eleven South Africa’s official languages, offers benchmarks against which children’s development can … conservative assumptions. These are surprisingly large, considering that these five programmes served mainly children who would …
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