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We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the … United States at the onset of formal education. Our identification strategy rests on the assumption that, conditional on … covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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This paper combines multiple sources of information on early childhood development in a unified model for analysis of a wide range of early childhood policy interventions. We develop a model of child care in which households decide both the quantities and qualities of maternal and non-maternal...
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We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the … United States at the onset of formal education. Our identification strategy rests on the assumption that, conditional on … covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …
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This study was prepared by Martin Schlotter while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Econcomics at the University of Munich in November 2011. It addresses the effects of different early...
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