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The causal effect of parents' schooling on children's schooling: A comparison of estimation methods

Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2010

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent's schooling on child's schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining biases...

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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of ethnic and native Germans

Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2009

This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (Native Germans"). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants and...

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The child adoption marketplace: Parental preferences and adoption outcomes

Skidmore, Mark; Anderson, Gary; Eiswerth, Mark - 2011

characteristics. Adoption costs are lower for older children, special needs children, and children of African descent. To our … inform policies regarding the transition of children from foster care to adoptive families and may help to determine …

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The quantity and quality of teachers: a dynamic trade-off

Gilpin, Gregory; Kaganovich, Michael - 2009

We study the dynamics of the quantity and quality of teachers in the framework of dynamic general equilibrium OLG model. The quantity and quality are jointly set by a government agency wishing to maximize the quality of basic education per student while being bound by teachers' collective...

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Educational reform and disadvantaged students : are they better off or worse off?

Bishop, John H.; Mane, Ferran - 2004

graduation tests, (4) state defined minimums for the total number of courses students must take and pass to get a high school …

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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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Does a generous welfare state crowd out student achievement?: panel data evidence from international student tests

Falch, Torberg; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008

consumption, government social expenditures, and the progressivity of the income tax system have negative effects on student …

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Student performance may not improve when universities are choosier

Aina, Carmen; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Francesconi, Marco - 2010

conditional progression schemes are effective strategies to select high-performing students. Previous work has mainly focused on …

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A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility, domestic division of labour, and the education of children

Cigno, Alessandro - 2007

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … children equally between them, while the predominant pattern in developing countries is for the father to specialize in market … work leaving the care of the children to the mother. The other is that the sign of the cross-country correlation between …

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Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek famine

Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2010

This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...

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