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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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seem more pronounced for women and low-income students. In addition, there is little evidence that the effects of high … access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using …
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, we find that the children of persons affected in utero also have lower cognitive scores, suggesting a persistent …
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, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …
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A variety of public campaigns, including the "Just Say No" campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to "Just Say No to Drugs", are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. Despite this, very little is known about the effect of school peers on...
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using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around …
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their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies …
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markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children …
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College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias....
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employ data from the universe of children born in Florida between 1994 and 2002 and in Denmark between 1990 and 2001, which …
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