Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?
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Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?
Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 17/13
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Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?
CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2013-029
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Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7416
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Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?
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Abstract
This paper investigates the importance of parents reading to their young children. Using Australian data we find that parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills of these children at least up to age 10 or 11. Our findings are robust to a wide range of sensitivity analyses.
Keywords: reading to children, reading skills, other cognitive skills
JEL Classification: C26, I21, J24
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Kalb, Guyonne R.J. and van Ours, Jan C., Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?. IZA Discussion Paper No. 7416, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2276308 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2276308
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