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administrative register data on 25000 genotyped Norwegian children and their parents. We assess and disentangle the relative … importance of genetics and social background for children's standardized academic test scores. Norway offers a particularly … opportunity structures for children. The results point to genetics only confounding the parent status-offspring achievement …
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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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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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rapidly among black students than among whites, at least in part because black Head Start" children are more likely to …Recent research on Head Start, an enriched preschool program for poor children that effects on test scores fade out …' more quickly for black children than for white children. This" paper uses data from the 1988 wave of the National …
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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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difference-in-differences strategy to account for unobserved differences between students with access to SBP and those without … findings. First, the SBP helps students build good eating habits: SBP increases scores on the healthy eating index, reduces the … serum micronutrient deficiencies in vitamin C, vitamin E, and folate, and it increases the probability that children meet …
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