Too Little or Too Much? Actionable Advice in an Early-Childhood Text Messaging Experiment
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- Kalena E. Cortes & Hans Fricke & Susanna Loeb & David S. Song, 2018. "Too little or too much? Actionable Advice in an Early-Childhood Text Messaging Experiment," NBER Working Papers 24827, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
literacy and reading skills; parental engagement; text messaging; and parent-child activities;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2018-09-03 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-NEU-2018-09-03 (Neuroeconomics)
- NEP-URE-2018-09-03 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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