Kindergarten Pupils’ Birth Order and Domains of Early Childhood Development

Quality Early Education and Child Care From Birth to Kindergarten.

High-quality early education and child care for young children improves physical and cognitive outcomes for the children and can result in enhanced school readiness. Preschool education can be viewed as an investment (especially for at-risk children), and studies show a positive return on that investment. Barriers to high-quality early childhood education include inadequate funding and staff ed...

Adverse Experiences in Early Childhood and Kindergarten Outcomes.

OBJECTIVE To examine associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in early childhood and teacher-reported academic and behavioral problems in kindergarten. METHODS We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national urban birth cohort. Subjects with primary caregiver-reported information on ACE exposures ascertained at 5 years...

Childhood allergies, birth order and family size.

The Human Capital Dynamic Linkage in Early Childhood Development: How Pre-Kindergarten Experience Affects Schooling Outcomes

This paper uses a multi-stage education model to identify the human capital dynamic linkage in early childhood development, namely how children’s pre-kindergarten human capital levels affect their schooling efficiency and outcomes. The human capital dynamic linkage is significantly positive, and estimation without controlling for endogeneity is downward biased. The human capital dynamic linkage...

Birth order progressively affects childhood height.

BACKGROUND There is evidence suggesting that first-born children and adults are anthropometrically different to later-borns. Thus, we aimed to assess whether birth order was associated with changes in growth and metabolism in childhood. METHODS We studied 312 healthy prepubertal children: 157 first-borns and 155 later-borns. Children were aged 3-10 years, born 37-41 weeks gestation, and of bi...