Reading to young children: a head-start in life?

Jan C. van Ours and Guyonne Kalb

No 9485, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

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: Cognitive skills; Reading to children (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C26 I21 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-edu and nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://cepr.org/publications/DP9485 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Reading to young children: A head-start in life? (2014)
Working Paper: Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life? (2013)
Working Paper: Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life? (2013)
Working Paper: Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life? (2013)
Working Paper: Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life? (2013)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:9485

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://cepr.org/publications/DP9485

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX, UK.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CEPR ().