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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
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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
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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
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Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?
Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001726500
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Class size effects : evidence using a new estimation technique
Denny, Kevin; Oppedisano, Veruska - 2010
This paper estimates the marginal effect of class size on educational attainment of high school students. We control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729658
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Mother's education and birth weight
Chevalier, Arnaud; O'Sullivan, Vincent - 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/10010268044
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Anatomy of a health scare: education, income and the MMR controversy in the UK
Anderberg, Dan; Chevalier, Arnaud; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268657
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The causal effect of breastfeeding on children's cognitive development : a quasi-experimental design
Denny, Kevin; Doyle, Orla - 2010
Objective: To estimate the causal effect of breastfeeding on children's cognitive skills as measured at ages 3, 5, 7 …). Participants: Data on 11,792 (age 3) and 9117 (age 5) children in MCS and 4923 (age 7 and 11) children in NCDS. Main outcome …: The duration of breastfeeding has a small, but significant, effect on children's cognitive skills in the linear regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725461
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The effect of reducing welfare access on employment, health, and children’s long-run outcomes
Hicks, Jeffrey; Simard-Duplain, Gaëlle; Green, David A.; … - 2023
substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers. We find zero effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014380992
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Subject choice and earnings of UK graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2011
Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of study. We document a large heterogeneity in the mean wages of graduates from different subjects and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278737