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We present findings from an integrated early childhood parenting program on stunting and wasting in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Importantly, where half the communities were randomly assigned to receive the parenting program and the remaining half served as a control that received standard...
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household work. A the same time school closures in many countries impacted on children's lives and their learning process. In … on children's wellbeing, and parents' market and household work, we estimate how the reallocation of intra …-household responsibilities during the lock-down has affected children's use of time, their emotional status and their home learning. We find that …
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The early development of non-cognitive skills has longlasting benefits for children's sub- sequent educational … attainment and wages. Drawing on a rich, nationally representative longitudinal sample of young children in Ireland, we present …-parental care. This is equivalent to 44% of the difference in externalising behaviour between children with a mother with …
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significantly for children of all backgrounds. There is, however, complete fade-out for children with highly educated parents. Given … positive long-run effects for children with low-educated parents, the treatment reduces child skill gaps across parents …This paper studies the interaction between parental and public inputs in children's skill formation. We perform a …
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significantly for children of all backgrounds. There is, however, complete fade-out for children with highly educated parents. Given … positive longrun effects for children with low-educated parents, the treatment reduces child skill gaps across parents …This paper studies the interaction between parental and public inputs in children's skill formation. We perform a …
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While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to … implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the … gathering and provision of information to parents at scale. In a field experiment across 22 middle and high schools, we used …
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nationally representative telephone survey that included 86,537 parents of children 0–17 years old. The sample was composed of … poverty. Aims: Using a nationally representative sample of American families with children, this study investigated racial … variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income …
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sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …
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sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …
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We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for … individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that …
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