Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?

Guyonne Kalb and Jan van Ours

No 7416, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C26 I21 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2013-05
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Published - published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 40, 1-24

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