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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313791
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022931
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Gender, Body Mass and Economic Status
Conley, Dalton; Glauber, Rebecca - 2021
woman's body mass results in a .6 percentage point decrease in her family income and a .4 percentage point decrease in her …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221313
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The War at Home : Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability
Conley, Dalton - 2011
service on health and income. This research has shown that effects of veteran status on mortality and earnings that appeared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131668
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987133
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A Pound of Flesh or Just Proxy? Using Twin Differences to Estimate the Effect of Birth Weight on Life Chances
Conley, Dalton; Strully, Kate; Bennett, Neil G. - 2021
Recent research into the implications of low birth weight may be plagued by unobserved variable bias. It is unclear whether the later-life consequences found to be associated with low birth weight are a true effect of poundage' at birth, or whether this association results from underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218712