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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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The socioeconomic gradient of child development : cross-sectional evidence from children 6 - 42 months in Bogota

Rubio-Codina, Marta; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; … - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 50 (2015) 2, pp. 464-483

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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

Attanasio, Orazio - 2015

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production … investments affect cognitive development at all ages, but more so for younger children. Investments also have an impact on health …

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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 - 2012

reduced crime rates of the targeted generation and their children by comparable amounts. We attribute these outcomes to …

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Measuring Test Measurement Error : A General Approach

Boyd, Donald - 2012

the total test measurement error that can be applied when one or more cohorts of students take three or more tests in the …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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School grants and education quality : experimental evidence from Senegal

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

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