We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy … experiment in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings imply starting Kindergarten one year late substantially reduces the … for low income students and males. Estimates suggest that entering kindergarten early may have a detrimental effect on …

on issues involving children's education and discipline and increase parental inputs into their children's development …Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … same time: empowering mothers through tools that also advance their children's development. A program operated by AVSI, an …

Past research has demonstrated that positive increments to the non-cognitive development of children can have long …

In an effort to enhance the quality of early childhood education (ECE) at scale, nearly all U.S. states have recently …

, including on learning activities. In contrast, the second intervention led to significant improvements in children’s cognitive …

correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …

provide more cognitive stimulation to children with higher education polygenic scores. This pattern varies by socioeconomic …A growing literature points to children’s influence on parents’ behavior, including parental investments in children …. Further, previous research has shown differential parental response by socioeconomic status to children's birth weight …

This paper organizes and synthesizes the literature on early childhood education and childcare. In it, we go beyond … programs targeted toward disadvantaged children shows beneficial effects. Returns exceed costs, even accounting for the … disadvantaged children compared to home alternatives. Universal programs benefit disadvantaged children …

these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic …

countries there is a strong positive relationship between parental education, or earnings, and time spent with children. We then …Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … thought to be critical to the development of quot;qualityquot; children who will become productive adults. This paper has …