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wives of men in these groups in the period from 1978 through 1999. Parents' schooling, especially mother's schooling, does …
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persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …
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In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and children's educational achievement, as measured by … 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which contains a large, national sample of children …-invariant characteristics of the child. Our results suggest that, in general, children who are overweight or obese have achievement test scores …
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children when they are high school seniors. In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years …
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More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is … estimated elasticity of intergenerational transmission of income of approximately .2 …
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I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …
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This paper is an empirical investigation of the effect of poor early life-cycle health on post-secondary educational choices and outcomes. We use panel data for a sample of 10,430 individuals who were high school seniors in the spring of 1972, and who were re-surveyed in October of each year...
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-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …
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We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
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are strained, public schools can employ cost-saving measures with no ill-effect on students. We theorize that if budget …
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