Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights
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- Roland Fryer & Steven Levitt & John List, 2015. "Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights," Framed Field Experiments 00587, The Field Experiments Website.
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JEL classification:
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2015-08-30 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2015-08-30 (Education)
- NEP-EXP-2015-08-30 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GER-2015-08-30 (German Papers)
- NEP-LTV-2015-08-30 (Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty)
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