Social background and children's cognitive skills: The role of early childhood education and care in a cross-national perspective

N Kulic, J Skopek, M Triventi… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
This review looks at the current state of research on early childhood education and care
(ECEC) from a sociological stance. We summarize how children's experiences and benefits …

[图书][B] The uses of social investment

A Hemerijck - 2017 - books.google.com
The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new
post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the …

Is the social safety net a long-term investment? Large-scale evidence from the food stamps program

MJ Bailey, H Hoynes, M Rossin-Slater… - Review of Economic …, 2023 - par.nsf.gov
We use novel, large-scale data on 17.5 million Americans to study how a policy-driven
increase in economic resources affects children's long-term outcomes. Using the 2000 …

Child poverty and the promise of human capacity: childhood as a foundation for healthy aging

PH Wise - Academic pediatrics, 2016 - Elsevier
The effect of child poverty and related early life experiences on adult health outcomes and
patterns of aging has become a central focus of child health research and advocacy. In this …

Socioeconomic inequality in children's achievement from infancy to adolescence: The case of Germany

J Skopek, G Passaretta - Social Forces, 2021 - academic.oup.com
When in children's lives do gaps by family socioeconomic status (SES) in cognitive skills
emerge, how large are they before children enter school, and how do they develop over …

The long-term effects of early life Medicaid coverage

S Miller, LR Wherry - Journal of Human Resources, 2019 - jhr.uwpress.org
In this study, we evaluate how an expansion of Medicaid coverage for pregnant women and
infants affected the adult outcomes of individuals who gained access to coverage in utero …

Using the Early Development Instrument to examine cognitive and non-cognitive school readiness and elementary student achievement

S Davies, M Janus, E Duku, A Gaskin - Early Childhood Research …, 2016 - Elsevier
There is currently no accepted consensus over which aspects of school readiness abilities
have noteworthy associations with later student achievement, independent of cognitive …

Can intensive early childhood intervention programs eliminate income-based cognitive and achievement gaps?

GJ Duncan, AJ Sojourner - Journal of human resources, 2013 - jhr.uwpress.org
How much of the income-based gaps in cognitive ability and academic achievement could
be closed by a two-year, center-based early childhood education intervention? Data from …

Why government fails so often: And how it can do better

PH Schuck - 2014 - torrossa.com
Americans and outsiders who marvel at its ability to govern for 225 years a remarkably
dynamic, diverse society. Yet most Americans today believe that our government is failing to …

The impact of financial education for youth

V Frisancho - Economics of education review, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper evaluates if the excitement about school-based financial education is warranted.
First, relying on recent experimental evidence, the paper takes stock of the impact of …