explained by improvements in early parental investment. This study demonstrates that boosting children's early cognitive skills …

visiting, group parenting, and baby massage, to disadvantaged Irish families raises children's cognitive and socio … by gender and stronger gains for firstborns. The results also suggest that socioeconomic gaps in children's skills are …

maternal education levels and gaps in outcomes are calculated between each group. Quantile decompositions of the pairwise gaps …

in college applications. The results contribute to the discussion of the gender gap in performance in education …

education. Informal childcare at 9 months also has harmful effects on child weight, but again only for children of more educated … pre-school children. Using data from the Infant Cohort of the Growing-Up in Ireland Survey, propensity score matching … months old increase the likelihood of being overweight at 3 years old, but only for children of mothers with higher levels of …

researchers. Economists have speculated for at least a century that the social returns to education may exceed the private returns … implementing individual fixed effects estimates. The individual fixed effect model shows that the external returns to education in … problem, we then implement the IV fixed effect estimates and find positive external returns to education at about 10%. We also …