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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. …
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between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these skills … skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …
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' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children's prosociality. In a second step, we present … evidence on a randomly-assigned variation of the social environment, providing children with a mentor for the duration of one … gap in prosociality between low and high SES children. A mediation analysis of the observed treatment effect suggests that …
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mentoring relationship affects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children’s educational …Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality … schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that …
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. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …
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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...
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most effective for children whose parents provide few social and interactive activities for their children. … children and use this tool to show that children from high socioeconomic status (SES) families are more accurate in their self …-assessment, compared to children from low SES families. To move beyond correlational evidence, we then exploit the exogenous variation of …
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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...
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We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...
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Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
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