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The impact of age within academic year on adult outcomes

Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Greaves, Ellen - 2013

Children born at the end of the academic year have lower educational attainment, on average, than those born at the …

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Children, time allocation and consumption insurance

Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - 2015

husband and wife separate information on hourly wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate structural …

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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,...

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The effect of education policy on crime : an intergenerational perspective

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011

as labor earnings of the children who went through the post reform school system, in particular for individuals … the generation directly affected by the reform as well as their children. We use census data on all born in Sweden between … 1945 and 1955 and all their children merged with individual register data on all convictions between 1981 and 2008. We find …

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Identifying the drivers of month of birth differences in educational attainment

Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Greaves, Ellen - 2013

Children born at the end of the academic year have lower educational attainment, on average, than those born at the … scores is likely to be the most appropriate policy response to ensure that children born towards the end of the year are not …

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School grants and education quality : experimental evidence from Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2016

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A primer on human capital

Flabbi, Luca; Gatti, Roberta - 2018

human capital and income growth. Rather than completeness, the objective of this work is to distill some of the most … (sections 2, 3 and 4). The note then reviews the micro empirical literature estimating labor income returns of human capital …

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Career progression, economic downturns, and skills

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2013

This paper analyses the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...

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Estimating the effect of teacher pay on pupil attainment using boundary discontinuities

Greaves, Ellen; Sibieta, Luke - 2014

This paper provides causal estimates of the effect of teacher pay on pupil attainment using a sharp geographical discontinuity in teacher salaries. We compare schools in close proximity to a pay zone boundary to estimate the effect of teacher salary differentials on pupil attainment. We find...

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The drivers of month of birth differences in children's cognitive and noncognitive skills : a regression discontinuity analysis

Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Greaves, Ellen - 2013

between children born at the start and end of the academic year. It builds on the previous literature on this topic in England … differences in outcomes between children born in different months that we observe. Specifically, we compare differences in tests … oldest and youngest children in an academic cohort; highlighting that children born at the end of the academic year are at a …

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