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Improving early childhood development outcomes in times of COVID-19 : experimental evidence on parental networks and SMS messages

Hernández-Agramonte, Juan Manuel; Namen, Olga; … - 2022

. The experiment provided parents of preschool students with text messages to support their children's learning at home …. After 15 weeks of intervention, the cognitive skills of children whose parents received the text messages rose 0 …

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Negative-Selection Migration and Education Investment : Theory and Empirical Investigation on the Roles of Parental Remittances and Children's Future Migration

Yamada, Daichi - 2018

This paper examines the effect of labor migration on education investment in migrant-sending countries in negative-selection circumstances. Negative-selection migration has two conflicting effects. On one hand, individuals in prospect of future migration lose education incentives (the prospect...

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Parental Preferences and Aspirations for Child Education, and Intra-household Resource Allocation : Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia

Adem, Jemal - 2022

experimental dataset disaggregated by individual children and parents. The findings of the study show that parents reinforce the …This paper investigates the preference of parents for inter-child allocation of education investment in Ethiopia. It … educational achievements of their children. Educational investment does not vary by the gender of children. Instead, parental …

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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

Attanasio, Orazio; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015

-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production …

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Parental Human Capital Investment and Old-Age Transfers from Children : Is it a Loan Contract or Reciprocity for Indonesian Families?

Raut, Lakshmi K.; Tran, Lien H. - 2005

of children to old-age support. The first model formulates these transfers as a pure loan contract and the second model …

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Maternal Employment, Migration, and Child Development

Liu, Haiyong; Mroz, Thomas A.; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2015

important dimensions of school and parental input decisions: the parents' choice of which school attendance area to live in, and … the mother's decision to work as a proxy for maternal time directly devoted to child education. Parents receive utility … employment decisions, parents take into account the distribution of impacts of these decisions on their child's educational …

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Estimating inter-generational returns to medical care : new evidence from at-risk newborns

Clarke, Damian; Lillo Bustos, Nicolás; Tapia Schythe, … - 2022

Targeted treatments of newborns with delicate health stocks have been shown to have considerable returns in terms of survival and later life outcomes. We seek to determine to what degree such treatments are transmitted across generations. We follow three generations of linked micro-data from...

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Lowering barriers to remote education : experimental impacts on parental responses and learning

Beam, Emily A.; Mukherjee, Priya; Navarro-Sola, Laia - 2022

parents adjust their investments in response to three educational interventions: an informational campaign about an …

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Do Parents Propagate Income Inequality among Children? Evidence from Chinese and Swedish Twins

Sikhova, Aiday; Oskarsson, Sven; Ahlskog, Rafael - 2021

first demonstrate that parents tend to invest similar amount of resources in the children during their childhood. By … parents tend to compensate or reinforce income inequality between the children through inter vivos transfers. Exploring …Economists have devoted a tremendous amount of attention to understanding the role of parents in driving within …

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Group meetings and boosters to sustain early impacts on child development : experimental evidence from Kenya

Lopez Garcia, Italo; Luoto, Jill E.; Aboud, Frances; … - 2022

large positive impacts on children's cognition and parenting behaviors immediately after its end. Over the next two years, a … in magnitude. Boosters had a small positive added value on parenting behaviors and children's socioemotional development …, despite the interruption of COVID-19 to their delivery. Sustained impacts on children's development were strongly mediated by …

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