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Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care is severely rationed and use within state differences in ...
Felfe, Christina, Lalive, Rafael
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Child Care Markets, Parental Labor Supply, and Child Development

open access: yes, 2020
We develop and estimate a model of child care markets that endogenizes both demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the supply side,
Inter-American Development Bank
core   +1 more source

Early child development and parents' labor supply [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Applied Econometrics, 2020
SummaryThe impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the empirical literature. We combine an instrumental variable approach to account for the endogeneity of the development status with a model of nonrandom labor force participation to identify its impact.
Lukas Laffers, Bernhard Schmidpeter
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Children’s creative thinking abilities and social orientations in Finnish early childhood educationand care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The study presented in this article is part of a larger study called Progressive Feedback (blogs.helsinki.fi/orientate), which is an early childhood education and care (ECEC) research and development project. The aim of this article is to find out (
Nikkola, Teemu   +5 more
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A Snapshot of Child Care Center Quality and Child Development in Mexico for Children Under Three [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
From 2018 to 2020, we conducted a groundbreaking, nationwide study in Mexico to assess the quality of service at public childcare centers for children under age three.
Inter-American Development Bank
core   +1 more source

The Performance Comparison of Socioeconomic and Behavioural Factors as Predictors of Higher Blood Lead Levels of 0–6-Year-Old Chinese Children between 2004 and 2014

open access: yesChildren, 2022
Childhood lead exposure is a commonly known risk factor affecting children’s health, and 10 governments have taken actions to reduce children’s lead exposure sources. Because lab testing for children’s blood lead levels (BLLs) was not popularized easily,
Yixuan Xie, Yaohua Dai, Tao Li
doaj   +1 more source

Love and peace across generations: Biobehavioral systems and global partnerships

open access: yesComprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2021
: Children's environments - especially relationships with caregivers - sculpt not only developing brains but also multiple bio-behavioral systems that influence long-term cognitive and socioemotional outcomes, including the ability to empathize with ...
James F. Leckman, M.D., Ph.D.   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bridging the Loneliness Gap: Depression, Connectivity, and Isolation in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Peers

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early verb development in one austrian child [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to trace the early development of verbs (first 50 verb lemmas) in one Austrian child.
Klampfer, Sabine
core  

Promoting Language and Literacy in Early Childhood Care and Education Settings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The foundation for life-long literacy is established during the early childhood years. Emergent literacy and language acquisition skills precede the ability to read and write and influence later literacy skills development.
Child Care & Early Education Research Connections
core   +1 more source

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