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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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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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decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in … inequality in the next generation. Low-ability and low-SES students are most responsive to task-biased demand changes and, as a …
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addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …
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rate versus just the steady-state income level - matters less than academic discussions suggest. We close by discussing …
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and students’ cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children’s learning time …If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development …, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper …
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We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive … rather than teachers assign students to classrooms. …
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The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...
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An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
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Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …
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