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persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …
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Students starting at a two-year college are much less likely to graduate with a college degree than similar students … of peer ability for most two-year and four-year colleges in the United States- the average PSAT of enrolled students. We … between students who start at two-year versus four-year institutions is explained by differences in peers, leaving room for …
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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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, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …
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, we find that the children of persons affected in utero also have lower cognitive scores, suggesting a persistent …
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using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around …
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markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children …
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their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies …
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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...
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