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income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …
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inequality concerns over children's final outcomes. Because parents perceive investment to be 12 percent more productive for the … developing world. I study the role played by parents' educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … develop new theory-driven survey measures based on hypothetical scenarios that allow me to separately identify parents …
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This paper studies the long-term relationship between parental and child education in Germany, where children are … tracked into academic and non-academic track schools at the age of 10. On average, children are more likely to attend an … academic track school if their parents attended one. Estimating marginal treatment effect curves, we find that there is no …
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naturalized children of guest workers, ethnic Germans, EU and third country immigrants. In line with previous research, I find … less adversely affected by low parental education than are the children of native Germans. …
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Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters …' schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete choice model in which parents face uncertainty about the quality of their … daughter's future marriage offers. Parents' choices are thus partially driven by their beliefs about the likelihood of …
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, it is crucial to announce them in advance to allow parents to adjust their investments when their children are young. …Parental investments significantly impact children's outcomes. Exploiting panel data covering individuals from birth to … mothers and fathers make investments in their children. We find that time investments, educational investments, and …
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This paper makes three contributions to the literature on educational attainment gaps by family income. First, we … conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on post-secondary (PS) attendance for recent high … Youth in Transition Survey. We estimate substantially smaller PS attendance gaps by parental income in Canada relative to …
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. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …
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. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …
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