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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. …

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Engaging girls in math : the unequal effects of text messaging to help parents support early math development

Doss, Christopher; Fricke, Hans; Loeb, Susanna; … - In: Economics of education review 88 (2022), pp. 1-18

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …

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When behavioral barriers are too high or low : how timing matters for text-based parenting interventions

Cortes, Kalena E.; Fricke, Hans; Loeb, Susanna; Song, … - In: Economics of education review 92 (2023), pp. 1-17

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COVID-19 and educational inequality : how school closures affect low- and high-achieving students

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …

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Family, community and life-cycle earnings : evidence from siblings and youth peers

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2017

Using longitudinal data based on administrative registers for the population of Danish men we develop a model which accounts for the joint earnings dynamics of siblings and youth community peers. We are the first to decompose the sibling correlation of permanent earnings into family and...

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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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Estimating the contribution of short-cycle programs to student outcomes in Colombia

Ferreira, María M.; Franco Hernandez, Andrea; … - 2020

workforce in the current world of work, little is known about the contribution they make to students' outcomes, above and beyond …

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COVID-19 and educational inequality : how school closures affect low- and high-achieving students

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - In: European economic review : EER 140 (2021), pp. 1-21

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Culture and student achievement: the intertwined roles of patience and risk-taking

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2020

addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …

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