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of children from poorer families …
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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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the Graduate PLUS loan program. Access to additional federal loans increased graduate students' borrowing and shifted the … in constrained students' persistence or degree receipt. We document that among programs in which a larger share of … graduate students had exhausted their annual federal loan eligibility before the policy change--and thus were more exposed to …
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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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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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While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores …
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