New federal funds from the Child Care and Dependent Block Grant Act of 1990 provide resources for states to increase the supply of subsidized child care for the working poor. Based on data from the largest urban county in North Carolina, the authors examine the potential economic implications of...
Chinese couples whose first child dies at a young age are allowed to have another child under the One Child Policy, arguably providing an incentive not to take good care of girl children among couples who have a strong son preference. Although it is becoming less common, in extreme cases ...
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Although parents were not, per se, aware of the hypotheses being tested, those who were in the intervention arm may have had incentive to report better language acquisition. At a minimum, as a result of block play they may have been more attuned to their child's linguistic abilities. Third...
Child sex trafficking is big business and the business is run like a Mafia organization which eliminates with extreme prejudice those persons who would expose the practice. As an aside, I am all too cognizant of the fact who and what I am dealing with. Therefore, I have distributed the Weso...
Prof Gietel-Basten said this has “unfortunately” proven to be amoneymaker[72]for the institutions, providing littleincentive[73]for them to change. Having a university student in the family “significantly increases” the family’s financial burden, noted Dr Zhao. ...
As described earlier, intervention had two treatment arms with the match rate (i.e., financial incentive for saving) being the only difference between the arms: in Bridges arm, the accumulated savings in a CDA were matched by a ratio of 1:1, while in Bridges PLUS arm the math ratio was...
Unprecedented federal investments through the RTT and Investing in Innovation (i3) programs challenged grant seekers to develop educator evaluation systems with multiple measures of educator effectiveness, includ- ing student growth and performance. Many states have enacted legislation to adopt the Common ...
states also require training related to specific topics, such as caring for infants and toddlers or a state’s early learning guidelines. And, due to the very low average pay rates for US child care teachers (Whitebook et al.2014), as an incentive to the workforce to attain higher ...
money is by providing a place for them to save. For younger kids, that may mean getting them a piggy bank; older kids can open up a bank account or debit card of their own. You can also pay them interest on what they save, providing an incentive to set aside money for the future....