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Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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-SES children reap both larger gains from having high age 7 test scores and smaller losses from having low age 7 test scores. The … opposite is true among high-SES children who suffer larger losses from low scores and smaller gains from high scores. However …
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. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …
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children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …
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This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in … pregnant. In some of our specifications, we use a sample of students from predominantly non-Muslim countries as an additional … achievement scores of Muslim students, especially females. Our analysis further reveals that most of these effects are …
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How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in life? This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and 1974. We link historical...
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did not weaken the relationship between early-life disadvantages and wages. This implies that advantaged children had …
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. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …
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enrollment among children that parents reported wanting to remain home at baseline. Children that parents want to migrate have … increased enrollment, and parents want more children to migrate … determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on …
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This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …
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