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Using unique panel data, we compare cognitive performance and wagering behavior of children (10-11 years) with adults …
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This article studies the causal effect of education on decision-making. In 1972 England raised its minimum school-leaving age from 15 to 16 for students born after September 1, 1957. An online survey was conducted with 2,700 individuals born in a 36-month window on either side of this date....
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Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...
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Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108193
Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108910
Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less … care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (n > 600), treated families receive …
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Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less … care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (n > 600), treated families receive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612969
children’s and parents’ knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding the consumption and disposal of plastics. We do this using … a randomized field experiment targeting fourth-grade children in Chile. The educational program had a sizeable and a … positive impact on children’ knowledge, attitudes and practices, but no effect on parents’ behavior. Heterogeneous effects …
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investment in children. A key to understanding the data patterns is to document the sources underlying the observed inequalities … associated with enriched parent-child interactions and improved vocabulary, math, and social-emotional skills for the children … reducing socioeconomic gaps in children’s skills, but that simple informational policies may not be sufficient …
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) intervention that targeted children aged 4 living in socially mixed neighborhoods of the city of Paris. We selected a large, random … practices. We measured SBR frequency and children's vocabulary before and after this intervention, among treated and control … children. The intervention had a large effect on SBR frequency. At the pre-test, SBR on a daily basis involved 41.2% of the …
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