We study the effects of preschool attendance on children's school progression and cognitive skills in Kenya and … Tanzania. Our analysis uses novel data from large-scale household surveys of children's literacy and numeracy skills, which …-primary education, our regressions identify the impacts from within-household differences, controlling for a variety of child …

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 …

the relationships between child stature, mother's years of education, and indicators of early childhood development. The …

Despite the well-documented benefits of high-quality child care, many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend low … (i.e., caregiver education and experience), and convenience (i.e., caregiver car ownership and availability). We find …

particular for children from low socio-economic status households, and substitution of infections from primary school ages to low …