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Parental Education and Parental Time with Children

Guryan, Jonathan - 2014

Beckerian framework of time allocation with a view toward establishing whether parental childcare appears to be more akin to …

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Birth Order and Delinquency : Evidence from Denmark and Florida

Breining, Sanni - 2017

Birth order has been found to have a surprisingly large influence on educational attainment, yet much less is known about the role of birth order on delinquency outcomes such as disciplinary problems in school, juvenile delinquency, and adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative...

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The Effects of Accountability Incentives in Early Childhood Education

Bassok, Daphna - 2017

In an effort to enhance the quality of early childhood education (ECE) at scale, nearly all U.S. states have recently adopted Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS). These accountability systems give providers and parents information on program quality and create both reputational and...

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The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education : Evidence from a Failed Policy Experiment

DeCicca, Philip - 2011

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 probability of repeating the third grade, and meaningfully...

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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

Black, Sandra - 2012

Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on both parental and student outcomes. We find very small and …

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New Evidence on the Impacts of Access to and Attending Universal Childcare in Canada

Kottelenberg, Michael - 2013

causal impact of childcare availability and not child care attendance. A notable exception is that despite estimated effects … analyses imply that on average attending childcare in Canada leads to a significant increase in this test score. However, our … most of the negative impacts reported in earlier research are driven by children from families who only attended childcare …

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Public School Access or Stay-at-Home Partner : Factors Mitigating the Adverse Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Academic Parents

Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchkov, Olga; Stearns, Jenna - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic created unexpected and prolonged disruptions to childcare access. Using survey evidence on time …-based or partner-provided childcare mitigated the severe disruptions to research observed among parents during COVID-19. We …

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School Quality and the Longer-Term Effects of Head Start

Currie, Janet; Thomas, Duncan - 2021

Recent research on Head Start, an enriched preschool program for poor children that effects on test scores fade out' more quickly for black children than for white children. This" paper uses data from the 1988 wave of the National Educational Longitudinal Survey to show that" black children who...

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Covid-19 Disruptions Disproportionately Affect Female Academics

Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchkov, Olga; Stearns, Jenna - 2021

men and women report substantial increases in childcare and housework burdens, but women experienced significantly larger …

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Introducing Cogx : A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions

Fryer, Roland G.; Levitt, Steven D.; List, John A.; … - 2021

We present the results of a novel early childhood intervention in which disadvantaged 3-4-year- old children were randomized to receive a new preschool and parent education program focused on cognitive and non-cognitive skills (CogX) or to a control group that did not receive preschool...

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