Search Results - subject:"cognitive development"

The Impact of Economic Migration on Children's Cognitive Development: Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey

Powers, Elizabeth T. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

the United States on the cognitive development of children remaining in Mexico. While there is no developmental effect of … time in ways that may influence and/or be influenced by cognitive development. …

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The Effect of Vaccination on Children's Physical and Cognitive Development in the Philippines

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Seigner, Erica - 2011

two years of life with later physical and cognitive development in children. We use propensity score matching to estimate …

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Early Nutrition and Cognition in Peru: A Within-Sibling Investigation

Outes, Ingo; Porter, Catherine; Sanchez, Alan; Escobal, … - Banco Central de Reserva del Perú - 2011

An extensive literature documents linkages between early nutritional deficiencies and reduced cognitive ability, educational attainment and, ultimately, lower labor market performance. Few of these studies, however, have shown these correlations to be genuinely causal. We reexamine the nutrition...

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Emotion regulation and young children’s consumer behavior

Lapierre, Matthew Allen - In: Young Consumers 17 (2016) 2, pp. 168-182

Purpose This paper aims to explore how children’s developing ability to effectively regulate their emotions influences their consumer behavior . Design/methodology/approach Working with 80 children and one of their parents, this study used direct observations of child behavior in a task where...

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Emotion regulation and young children's consumer behavior

Lapierre, Matthew Allen - In: Young consumers : insight and ideas for responsible … 17 (2016) 2, pp. 168-182

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522202

Handedness, health and cognitive development: evidence from children in the NLSY

Johnston, David W.; Nicholls, Michael E.R.; Shah, Manisha; … - 2010

and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse than their right-handed counterparts …. The health measures cover both physical and mental health, and the cognitive development test scores span (1) Memory, (2 … poor mental health. We also find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than …

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Poor, Hungry and Ignorant: Numeracy and the Impact of High Food Prices in Industrializing Britain, 1780-1850

Baten, Jörg; Crayen, Dorothee; Voth, Joachim - 2010

This paper uses the ability to recall one's age correctly as an indicator of numeracy. We show that low levels of nutrition impaired numeracy in industrializing England, 1780-1850. Numeracy declined markedly among those born during the war years, especially where wheat was dear. England's...

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Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the NLSY

Johnston, David W.; Nicholls, Michael E. R.; Shah, Manisha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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The impact of maternal depression on children’s cognitive development: An analysis based on panel quantile regressions

Yu, Linyue; Wilcox-Gök, Virginia - In: Economics Letters 126 (2015) C, pp. 107-109

We use unconditional quantile regressions for panel data to capture the various effects of maternal depression along the actual distribution of children’s cognitive test scores. Children falling in the middle of the test score distribution are most impacted.

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Maternity leave and children’s cognitive and behavioral development

Baker, Michael; Milligan, Kevin - In: Journal of Population Economics 28 (2015) 2, pp. 373-391

<Para ID="Par1">We investigate the impact of maternity leave on the cognitive and behavioral development of children at ages 4 and 5, following up previous research on these children at younger ages. The impact is identified by legislated increases in the duration of maternity leave in Canada, which...</para>

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