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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

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Intergenerational transmission of preferences and parental behaviours

Coda Moscarola, Flavia; Del Boca, Daniela; Paladino, … - 2024

This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of preferences between parents and their children, examining … Italian households (parents with children 14-20 years of age) our analysis reveals a significant and positive correspondence … between parents' and children's preferences. The results indicate that sharing information strengthens the transmission of …

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Long-run trends in the U.S. SES-achievement gap

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Peterson, Paul E.; Talpey, Laura M.; … - 2020

Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S....

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How parents' skills affect their time-use with children? : evidence from an RCT experiment in Italy

Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Schiavon, Lucia - 2020

This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on fragile families' time use with their children. Courses …, we find attending the course increased families' awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, the …

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Parenting with patience : parental incentives and child development

Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J.; Verriest, Ewout; … - 2023

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …

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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

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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Culture and student achievement: the intertwined roles of patience and risk-taking

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2020

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …

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Can patience account for subnational differences in student achievement? : regional analysis with Facebook interests

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - 2023

Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...

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Parental leave and children's schooling outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from a large parental leave reform

Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - 2013

parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …

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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...

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