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Are grandparents a good substitute for parents as the primary caregiver? : the impact of grandparents on children's academic performance
Wang, Sophie Xuefei; Bansak, Cynthia - 2022
This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254240
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Does quality time produce quality children? : evidence on the intergenerational transmission of human capital using parental deaths
Gould, Eric D.; Simhon, Avi - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008909488
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Age effects in education : a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrant children
Abatemarco, Antonio; Cavallo, Mariagrazia; Marino, … - 2021
that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417618
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704643
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Getting parents involved : a field experiment in deprived schools
Avvisati, Francesco; Gurgand, Marc; Guyon, Nina; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008667441
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Parental unemployment and adolescents' academic performance
Drydakis, Nick - 2023
parental unemployment on children's human capital should be considered by policymakers, as should educational interventions to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013541650
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Charter school closure and student achievement : evidence from Ohio
Carlson, Deven; Lavertu, Stéphane - In: Journal of urban economics 95 (2016), pp. 31-48
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Conscription and educational outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from the Republic of Cyprus
Savčić, Ružica; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Xefteris, … - 2020
-in-difference models, where female students act as a control group, and show that a reduction (increase) in the length of the army service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262207
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Choose the school, choose the performance : new evidence on the determinants of student performance in eight European countries
Bonacini, Luca; Brunetti, Irene; Gallo, Giovanni - 2021
results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …
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The consequences of friendships : Evidence on the effect of social relationships in school on academic achievement
Fletcher, Jason; Ross, Stephen L.; Zhang, Yuxiu - In: Journal of urban economics 116 (2020)
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