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How parenting courses affect time-use of the family?

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  • Daniela Del Boca
  • Chiara Daniela Pronzato
  • Lucia Schiavon

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This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on fragile families' time use with their children. Courses aimed at raising parental awareness of the importance of educational activities are offered in four Italian cities (Naples, Reggio Emilia, Teramo and Palermo) within the framework of the social program "FA.C.E. Farsi Comunità Educanti" and with the cooperation of the institution "Con i Bambini". To conduct the impact evaluation, we designed a randomized controlled trial involving random assignment of the families (mostly mothers). At the end of the intervention, we administered an assessment questionnaire both to the treatment group, which took the course, and to the control group, which did not. Comparing the outcomes, we find attending the course increased families' awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, the frequency with which they read to the child, and their desire to spend more time with the child.

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  • Daniela Del Boca & Chiara Daniela Pronzato & Lucia Schiavon, 2021. "How parenting courses affect time-use of the family?," CHILD Working Papers Series 93 JEL Classification: J1, Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) - CCA.
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