%0 Report
        %A Kalb, Guyonne
%A Ours, Jan C. van
        %T Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?
        %D 2013
        %8 2013 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 7416
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7416
        %X 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.
        %K reading to children
%K reading skills
%K other cognitive skills