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Parental education and child's education : a natural experiment

Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002075141

Parental education and child's education : a natural experiment

Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002071969

The impact of parental income and education on the schooling of their children

Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; O'Sullivan, Vincent; … - 2005

leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age … effects on sons than daughters. We find that the education effects remain significant even when household income is included …. Moreover, decomposing the income when the child is 16 between a permanent component and shocks to income at age 16 only the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002630733

Subject specific league tables and students' application decisions

Chevalier, Arnaud; Jia, Xiaoxuan - 2015

application data across UK universities over a period of 8 years, we investigate how league tables affect prospective students …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488250

Over-education and the skills of UK graduates

Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor); Lindley, Joanne (contributor) - 2006

During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by combining occupation codes and a self-reported measure...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499497

Can education compensate for low ability? : Evidence from British data

Denny, Kevin (contributor); O'Sullivan, Vincent (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002089858

"Making it count" : evidence from a field study on assessment rules, study incentives and student performance

Chevalier, Arnaud; Dolton, Peter J.; Lührmann, Melanie - 2014

deviation in exam grade. Effort in our study increases most for students at and below median ability, resulting in a reduction …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418868

Mother's education and birth weight

Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor); … - 2007

"Low birth weight has considerable short and long-term consequences and leads to high costs to the individual and society even in a developed economy. Low birth weight is partially a consequence of choices made by the mother pre- and during pregnancy. Thus policies affecting these choices could...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451845

Born to be wild? : The effect of birth order, families and schools on truancy

Denny, Kevin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002122659

Anatomy of a health scare : education, income and the MMR controversy in the UK

Anderberg, Dan (contributor); Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor) - 2008

children, could have potentially serious side-effects. As the controversy set in, uptake of the MMR vaccine by more educated … parents decreased significantly faster than that by less educated parents, turning a significant positive education gradient … suggests that our results are not driven by other unrelated trends. Somewhat puzzling, more educated parents also reduced their …

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