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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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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes Over the Life-Cycle

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011

Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...

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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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Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence Across Countries

Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …

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Culture and Student Achievement : The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking

Hanushek, Eric A.; Kinne, Lavinia; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2022

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …

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