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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents

Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - 2007

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …

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From the cradle to the labor market? The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2005

of children from poorer families. …

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Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice

Carneiro, Pedro; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James Joseph - 2003

This paper uses factor models to identify and estimate distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL frameworks to a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to account for unobserved conditioning variables. Using these models, we can identify all pairwise and joint treatment...

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Under pressure? The effect of peers on outcomes of young adults

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2010

A variety of public campaigns, including the Just Say No campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to Just Say No to Drugs, are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. Despite this, very little is known about the effect of school peers on the...

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Like father, like son? A note on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2008

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is … estimated elasticity of intergenerational transmission of income of approximately .2. …

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