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Author : Alan Nilton Sanchez Jimenez
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Essays on Child Development and Skills Formation written by Alan Nilton Sanchez Jimenez and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Nilton Sanchez Jimenez
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Essays on Child Development and Skills Formation written by Alan Nilton Sanchez Jimenez and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francesco Agostinelli
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Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Essays on Children's Skill Formation written by Francesco Agostinelli and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation is composed by three chapters. In Chapter 2 (coauthored with Matthew Wiswall) I develop new results for the identification and estimation of the technology of children's skill formation when children's skills are unobserved. In Chapter 3 I shed light on the importance of dynamic equilibrium interdependencies between children's social interactions and parental investments decisions in explaining developmental differences between different social environments. In Chapter 4 (coauthored with Giuseppe Sorrenti) I study the effect of family income and maternal hours worked on both cognitive and behavioral child development.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309324882
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.
Author : Mario Ramos Veloza
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Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (971 download)
Download or read book Three Essays on Child Development written by Mario Ramos Veloza and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics literature is interested in how child cognitive and socio-emotional skills develop during childhood. Evolution of skills is crucial to determine productivity, criminality among other social and economic outcomes. The government has a role in shaping abilities improving conditions at home or school. Thus, initial deficiencies of children in disadvantageous households can be compensated by increasing resources or material investments. These essays investigate how computers and income affect traditional measures of academic success. Also, how parental conflict is involved in a dynamic framework is investigated. The first chapter analyzes whether access to computers in schools improves performance in math and language standardized tests. Computers and in general technology are part of current living conditions, therefore, there has been a lot of debate whether they contribute to learning. Computers can affect tests because they can substitute or complement teachers and material inputs at school. The analysis is carried out using "Computadores para Educar" a nationwide program in Colombia that allocates computers in public schools. The program started in 2000 as a presidential initiative to improve access and use of information technologies. Results indicate that there is no gain on language and mathematics achievement tests. In the second paper, we focus on the analysis of how cash transfers that affect the budget constraint may have a different effect on child outcomes over the income distribution. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we analyze the impact of support assistance on children from households with low to moderate income in the United States. The data is consistent with two specifications for the relationship between child outcomes and income: a linear and linear in the logarithm. This finding implies that public programs aiming to improve math and reading achievement tests may increase transfers to children from households at the low end of the income distribution. The final chapter includes the effect of parental conflict into skill development during childhood. Parental conflict is a non-tangible input related with psychological well-being of the parents. There is evidence that conflict adversely affects cognitive and non-cognitive skill development, but this is the first study that jointly analyzes the impact on both skills. Estimates suggest that reductions in conflict benefits skills and adult outcomes. Cognitive development is more affected during early childhood and non-cognitive development for later ages. The effect of reducing parental conflict on years of education completed is similar to the effect of increasing parental time but lower than the effect of increasing material investments.
Author : Sabina Pauen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521765501
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Early Childhood Development and Later Outcome written by Sabina Pauen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of infant cognition have transformed radically over the span of less than a century. Once considered unintelligent, infants are now described as partners in their own development. Modern research analyzes the ways in which cognitive and social skills developed early in life help shape intelligence, personality and achievement over time. In Early Childhood Development and Later Outcome, Sabina Pauen has compiled essays by international experts reflecting the state of infant cognition studies and developmental psychology. These essays present cutting-edge research on a broad range of topics of relevance to scientists, teachers and policy makers alike. The volume addresses current research on skill formation as well as longitudinal studies tracing achievement beyond childhood. Collectively, this work points the way toward approaches that will deepen our understanding of infant cognition and the profound consequences of early childhood development for future achievement.
Author : Kira Marie Villa
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Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Childhood Development, Human Capital Formation and Psycho-social Well-being written by Kira Marie Villa and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently and emerging literature in economics highlights the importance of early childhood well-being and what are know as "noncognitive" skills to economic success. While growing evidence in links these skills to economic, behavioral and demographic outcomes in the developed countries, there is little such evidence linking these traits to economic outcomes in developing country contexts. Moreover, research in the economics literature generally estimates the effects of a general noncognitive aggregate rather than specific traits. In this dissertation I explore how various dimensions of human capital develop over childhood and how cognition and specific personality and noncognitive traits determine labor market outcomes. Chapter 1 estimates how health, cognition and specific noncognitive abilities are jointly produced over the different stages of childhood in a developing country context. It estimates self- and cross-productivity effects across these different dimensions of child development and examines the role of parental inputs and home environment. The noncognitive abilities examined are risky behaviors, group socialization, positive affect and negative affect. Using a rich panel data set that follows a cohort of Filipino children from birth through adulthood, I estimate this production technology using the dynamic factor model developed in Cuhna and Heckman (2008). Findings show strong path dependency with current levels of child development largely dependent on previous levels causing early disparities in child development to persist throughout childhood into adult- hood. Lagged health, in particular, is an important determinant of current health, cognition and socio-emotional well-being in this developing country context. Cognition and socio-emotional traits similarly exhibit both self- and cross-productivity. Findings imply that child development is cumulative in nature and that early disparities will persist until effective and early remediation is undertaken. Chapter 2 estimates the effect of cognition and five specific personality traits on entrepreneurship and selection into different labor market segments for a sample of young adults in Madagascar. The personality traits examined are know as the Big Five Personality traits: Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. Examining the effects of specific noncognitive traits will help to better compare results across studies and target policy. I find that both cognition and personality are significant predictors of labor market selection and entrepreneurial activities. Personality matters in determining labor market outcomes of interest and should therefore be considered when discussing and designing human capital targeted policies. If the policy implications of the literature linking personality and outcomes are to be realized, then a better understanding of how these noncognitive traits are developed is needed. However, to date, the literature detailing how the Big Five Personality Traits are formed is much smaller. Chapter 3 explores the environmental and familial determinants of the Big Five Personality Traits. While I cannot directly control for genetics, we use information on maternal extended family to express a degree of genetic predisposition. I find that maternal background, extended family characteristics and other environmental determinants all interact and play a role in determining the five personality traits we examine.
Author : Giacomo Mason
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Essays in the Economics of Child Health and Skill Formation written by Giacomo Mason and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendy Mogel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416593063
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Blessing Of A Skinned Knee written by Wendy Mogel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides parents with advice on using Jewish teachings from the Torah and Talmud to overcome struggles with raising children, nurture strengths and uniqueness, and encourage respectfulness towards their parents and others.
Author : Yiwei Qian
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Essays on Development Economics written by Yiwei Qian and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been widely adopted in the subject of Development Economics to study the causal impact of developmental interventions. In this dissertation, I empirically study the impacts of two developmental interventions on the skill formation during early childhood -- a crucial period for the human capital development -- using RCTs and theoretically identify the causal impact of developmental interventions under a particular but rather common circumstance in RCTs. The first chapter evaluates the medium-term impact of a six-month early childhood home-visiting program on child outcomes in rural China. Two and a half years after completion of the program, we find persistent intervention effects on child working memory -- a key skill of executive functioning which plays a central role in children's development of cognitive and socio-emotional skills. We also find that the program had persistent effects on both parental time investments and preschool enrollment, with children in the treatment group enrolling earlier and in better quality preschools. Our finding of improved parental preschool selection in treatment villages points to an important intervention-induced persistent shift in parental investment behavior which might lead to long-term benefits over the life-cycle. The second chapter examines the role of social interaction in child development using a random experiment of ECD intervention in rural China. The intervention promotes social interactions by providing both infants and caregivers of infants free access to a playground in rural villages. After one year, the intervention improved the language skills of infants, by 0.15 standard deviation (SD) and the parenting awareness of their caregivers, by 0.21 SD. Evidence suggests infants and their parents benefited from the intervention through social interactions: children benefited from the intervention through their own interactions with other similar-age children as well as their caregivers' interactions with caregivers of other similar-age children; caregivers improved parenting awareness by learning from other experienced caregivers. in the third chapter, we study the causal identifications in cluster randomized controlled trials when there are spillovers across individuals within clusters through social interactions and/or general equilibrium of clusters. Under these circumstances, we show the traditional local average treatment effect (LATE) can no longer identify the average treatment effect of the subpopulation that is treated. Instead, we propose an analogous causal estimator of LATE in clustered randomized experiments with spillovers across individuals within clusters. Under a mild difference-in-differences type assumption, we point-identify the local causal effect for the treated in clustered randomized experiments with spillovers and one-sided noncompliance. Furthermore, we can identify the indirect effect of interventions for the subpopulation that is not treated, which can be used to test whether the spillover effect exists. We illustrate our method in our empirical analysis of a microcredit program in rural Morocco.
Author : Yuriy V. Karpov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521830126
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Neo-Vygotskian Approach to Child Development written by Yuriy V. Karpov and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The innovative neo-Vygotskian approach to child development is introduced to English-speaking readers.
Author : Rae Pica
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1506302165
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)
Download or read book What If Everybody Understood Child Development? written by Rae Pica and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand the connection between how kids grow and how they learn Rae Pica knows what she’s talking about. With over 35 years in the field of education, she’s realized that what’s missing from our approach to schooling is an understanding of the connection between how children develop and how they learn. In this collection, Pica keeps children front and center as she provides thought-provoking commentary and actionable insights on topics such as the Common Core, the self-esteem movement, and standardized testing. You’ll find 29 short essays on topics critical to best practice in child development and education Opinions of experts supported by research and anecdotal evidence Real-life stories shared by teachers and parents References to related articles and interviews with experts With its unflinching look at well-meaning initiatives that may be holding students back, this pocket-sized powerhouse of educational philosophy is sure to inspire discussion about our schools. "What a pleasure to read common sense wisdom about what young children need!" Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education New York University "This amazing book does far more than chase down the myths about how to ensure that children are successful. If offers real, research-backed practical strategies every teacher and parent can use. It belongs on every desk for quick and handy use!" Eric Jensen, Director Jensen Learning, Maunaloa, HI "Rae Pica has a deep understanding of childhood development and she has delved into every facet of it so that educators, parents, and policymakers will come to that understanding, too. This book needs to not just be on everyone’s shelves, but open in everyone’s hands." Peter DeWitt, Author/Consultant and Former K-5 Principal
Author : Rae Pica
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1506305148
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)
Download or read book What If Everybody Understood Child Development? written by Rae Pica and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand the connection between how kids grow and how they learn After 35 years as an education consultant, Rae Pica knows the importance of understanding the natural course of child development. In this collection, she keeps kids front and center as she provides thought-provoking commentary and actionable insights on topics such as the Common Core, the self-esteem movement, and standardized testing. Sure to inspire discussion, this pocket-size powerhouse of educational philosophy includes 29 short essays on topics critical to best practice in child development and education Opinions of experts supported by research and anecdotal evidence Real-life stories shared by teachers and parents References to related articles and interviews with experts
Author : Eric A Hanushek
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080465668
Total Pages : 853 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Handbook of the Economics of Education written by Eric A Hanushek and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbooks in Economics series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement. With contributions from leading researchers, each Handbook presents an accurate, self-contained survey of the current state of the topic under examination. These surveys summarize the most recent discussions in journals, and elucidate new developments. Although original material is also included, the main aim of this series is the provision of comprehensive and accessible surveys. *Every volume contains contributions from leading researchers *Each Handbook presents an accurate, self-contained survey of a particular topic *The series provides comprehensive and accessible surveys
Author : David Elkind
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Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Images of the Young Child written by David Elkind and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays reflects the notion that perceptions of children and childhood shape approaches to education and child rearing. The essays include: (1) "The Child Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," on how children have been regarded throughout recorded history; (2) "Piaget and Montessori in the Classroom," examining the different ways these renowned figures in early childhood education viewed the development and education of young children; (3) "Work Is Hardly Child's Play," on children's play and how it has been conceptualized by different investigators; (4) "Development in Early Childhood," summarizing contemporary scientific knowledge about child growth and development; (5) "Humanizing the Curriculum," on educational reform; (6) "We Can Teach Reading Better," about better understanding of the process of reading; (7) "Resistance to Developmentally Appropriate Practice: A Case Study in Educational Inertia," on the relationship between educational change and educational philosophy; (8) "The Hurried Child: Is Our Impatient Society Depriving Kids of Their Right To Be Children?" about early academic pressure on children; (9) "Overwhelmed at an Early Age," a further discussion of the effects of hurrying children academically; and (10) "Questions Parents Ask," providing answers to frequently asked questions. Eight of the essays include references. (TJQ)
Author : Flavio Cunha
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Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation written by Flavio Cunha and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next generation of empirical studies, and for formulating policy. Central to our analysis is the concept that childhood has more than one stage. We formalize the concepts of self-productivity and complementarity of human capital investments and use them to explain the evidence on skill formation. Together, they explain why skill begets skill through a multiplier process. Skill formation is a life cycle process. It starts in the womb and goes on throughout life. Families play a role in this process that is far more important than the role of schools. There are multiple skills and multiple abilities that are important for adult success. Abilities are both inherited and created, and the traditional debate about nature versus nurture is scientifically obsolete. Human capital investment exhibits both self-productivity and complementarity. Skill attainment at one stage of the life cycle raises skill attainment at later stages of the life cycle (self-productivity). Early investment facilitates the productivity of later investment (complementarity). Early investments are not productive if they are not followed up by later investments (another aspect of complementarity). This complementarity explains why there is no equity-efficiency trade-off. for early investment. The returns to investing early in the life cycle are high. Remediation of inadequate early investments is difficult and very costly as a consequence of both self-productivity and complementarity.
Author : Andres Felipe Cuadros Menaca
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Essays on Non-cognitive Skills, Child Labor and Working Conditions written by Andres Felipe Cuadros Menaca and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation uses two institutional datasets for two developing countries and examines several dimensions of economic development. Chapter 1 and 2 use an IV approach to identify the impact of international remittances on the welfare of individuals left behind in Colombia. In Chapter 1, I provide evidence that remittances reduce child labor participation, and the amount of hours worked, a margin ignored by the literature so far. In addition, Chapter 2 explores the impact that this remittance income has over the working conditions for informal workers, a type of job characterized by long working hours and lack of social benefits. I provide evidence that remittances not only reduce the amount of hours worked but also increase the likelihood of having health insurance for individuals with informal jobs. Chapter 3 uses a difference-in-difference approach to analyze the effect of parental shocks on skill formation. Using data for Indonesia, I provide evidence that parental shocks in childhood affect the level of conscientiousness and neuroticism in adulthood, two personality traits related with socio-economic success.
