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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021
connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665488
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Child care markets, parental labor supply, and child development
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Ferreira, María M.; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2020
This paper develops and estimates a model of child care markets that endogenizes demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the supply side, child care providers make entry,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390346
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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries
Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Wilhelm, Daniel; … - 2020
It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180493
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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries
Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2022
It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012813620
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Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings
Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020
Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388740
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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries
Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2021
It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500502
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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries
Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2023
It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500955
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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents
Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - 2010
We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our … results show substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008772608
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544331
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Returns to ICT skills
Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016
How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416403