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作者：Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J.
作者单位：University of Essex; University of Chicago
摘要：This article introduces the EJ Feature on Child Development by reviewing the literature and placing the contributions of the articles in the Feature in the context of a vibrant literature.
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作者：Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher; Wiswall, Matthew
作者单位：University of Turin; New York University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：We utilise a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of various transfer policies on the distribution of child outcomes. We develop a cost criterion that can be used to compare the efficacy of unrestricted, restricted, and conditional cash transfer (CCT) systems, and find that an optimally chosen CCT programme is the most cost-efficient way to attain any given gain in average child quality. We explore several design elements for the CCT system and di...
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作者：Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University College London; Uppsala University
摘要：This article studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income and an index of investments in children, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We find that there is partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks but the magnitude of the estimated responses is small. We cannot reject the hypothesis of full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpret...
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作者：Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of Chicago; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：This article examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviour of two of the oldest and most widely cited US early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomisation with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC). There are pronounced gender effects strongly favouring boys, although there are also effects for girls. Dynamic mediation analyses show a significant role played by improved childhood traits, above and...
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作者：Del Bono, Emilia; Francesconi, Marco; Kelly, Yvonne; Sacker, Amanda
作者单位：University of Essex; University of Bergen; University of Essex; University of London; University College London
摘要：Using large longitudinal survey data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, this article estimates the relationship between maternal time inputs and early child development. We find that maternal time is a quantitatively important determinant of skill formation and that its effect declines with child age. There is evidence of long-term effects of early maternal time inputs on later outcomes, especially in the case of cognitive skill development. In the case of non-cognitive development, the evid...
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作者：Dickson, Matt; Gregg, Paul; Robinson, Harriet
作者单位：University of Bath; University of Bristol
摘要：We estimate the causal effect of parents' education on their children's education and examine the timing of the impact. We identify the causal effect by exploiting the exogenous shift in (parents') education levels induced by the 1972 minimum school leaving age reform in England. Increasing parental education has a positive causal effect on children's outcomes that is evident in preschool assessments at age 4 and continues to be visible up to and including high-stakes examinations taken at age...
