Search Results - subject:"Child development"

The legacy of China’s one-child policy on human capital : how being raised by an only child affects cognitive and noncognitive skill development

Feng, Shuaizhang; Gan, Yu; Han, Yujie; Kautz, Tim - 2026

China's One-Child Policy (OCP) restricted most couples to a single birth, leading to a rapid increase in the prevalence of only children. Using longitudinal data and a regression discontinuity design around the policy's start, we estimate the effects on grandchildren's human capital. We find...

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Early learning across decades : advances in measuring Head Start effectiveness

Gibbs, Chloe R. - 2026

The Head Start program, launched in 1965 and targeted to children from disadvantaged backgrounds, remains the largest early childhood care and education (ECE) program in the United States and the only one deployed at the federal level. As such, the Head Start literature spans several decades and...

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The Legacy of China's One-Child Policy on Human Capital: How Being Raised by an Only Child Affects Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Development

Feng, Shuaizhang; Gan, Yu; Han, Yujie; Kautz, Tim - 2026

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Maternal Life Satisfaction and Child Development from Toddlerhood to Adolescence

Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Jessen, Jonas; Spiess, C. Katharina - In: Review of Economics of the Household (2026) Online first articles, pp. 1-42

We analyse how maternal life satisfaction impacts child development at different ages from toddlerhood to adolescence …-being can be raised. Looking at the association between paternal life satisfaction and child development, we find similarly …. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, which captures maternal life satisfaction and various age-specific measures of child …

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Early learning across decades : advances in measuring head start effectiveness

Gibbs, Chloe - 2026

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Chronic depression, child development and human capital among the forcibly displaced : evidence from Syrian refugees

Smith, Emma - 2026

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Public childcare, labor market outcomes of caregivers, and child development : experimental evidence from Brazil

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Barros, Ricardo Paes de; … - 2025

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Cohabitation, child development, and college costs

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Hannusch, Anne; Kopecky, Karen A.; … - 2025

US college-educated couples with children marry at higher rates than those without a college degree. We argue that marriage, which entails lower separation risk and more equitable asset division if separation occurs, provides insurance to the lower-earning spouse, facilitating child investment....

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Parenting with patience : parental incentives and child development

Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J.; Verriest, Ewout; … - 2025

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Casting a long shadow : how parental risky behaviors impair child development in Russia

Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca; Stillman, Steven - 2025

This paper estimates the short-run impact of parental risky behaviors on multiple dimensions of child development using …

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