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Parental Educational Investment and Children'S Academic Risk : Estimates of the Impact of Sibship Size and Birth Order from Exogenous Variations in Fertility

Conley, Dalton; Glauber, Rebecca - 2021

The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process … children's educational achievement might be spurious. We extend these recent analyses of spuriousness versus causality using a … sibship size on children's private school attendance and on their likelihood of being held back in school. Specifically, we …

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Giving College Credit Where it is Due : Advanced Placement Exam Scores and College Outcomes

Smith, Jonathan - 2015

mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …

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Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide : The Effects of the G.I. Bill and World War Ii on the Educational Outcomes of Black Americans

Turner, Sarah E.; Bound, John - 2021

The effects of the G.I. Bill on collegiate attainment may have differed for black and white Americans owing to differential returns to education and differences in opportunities at colleges and universities, with men in the South facing explicitly segregated colleges. The empirical evidence...

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Going to War and Going to College : Did World War Ii and the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans?

Bound, John; Turner, Sarah E. - 2021

widespread rhetoric about the democratization' of higher education that came with this large pool of students, there is little …

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Cohort Crowding : How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment

Bound, John - 2006

Analyses of college attainment typically focus on factors affecting enrollment demand, including the financial attractiveness of a college education and the availability of financial aid, while implicitly assuming that resources available per student on the supply side of the market are...

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The Effect of Vietnam-Era Conscription and Genetic Potential for Educational Attainment on Schooling Outcomes

Schmitz, Lauren - 2016

This study examines whether draft-lottery estimates of the causal effect of Vietnam-era military service on schooling vary by genetic propensity toward educational attainment. To capture the complex genetic architecture that underlies the bio-developmental pathways behavioral traits and evoked...

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