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essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …
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Parents now engage in much more intensive parenting styles compared to a few decades ago. Today's parents supervise … their children more closely, spend more time interacting with them, help much more with homework, and place more emphasis on … educational achievement. More intensive parenting has also led to more unequal parenting: highly educated parents with high …
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's cognitive and educational attainment is not obvious: on the one hand, children may benefit from higher levels of family income …, on the other hand, parental employment reduces the amount of time parents spend with their children. …, especially those of mothers with young children. This trend has triggered an intense debate about its implications for children …
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began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education … focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. …
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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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resources for schooling from early years through to adolescence. Recent research has looked at how parents respond to children …Many countries around the world are making substantial and increasing public investments in children by providing … finds that parents reduce their own efforts as schooling improves, dampening the efficiency of government expenditure …
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education, one essential aspect is that “good” peers can potentially improve students’ academic achievement, career choices, or …
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predicted to induce increased school enrollment for children whose families wish to optimally invest in their children’s future … under-enroll their children. …
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There is a widely held belief that older students, by virtue of being more mature and readier to learn at school entry …-understood. Children's primary school entry ages vary worldwide, 2020 …
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parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …
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