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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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Introducing Cogx : A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions

Fryer, Roland G.; Levitt, Steven D.; List, John A.; … - 2021

We present the results of a novel early childhood intervention in which disadvantaged 3-4-year- old children were … evaluated a shortened summer version of the program (2 months) in which children were treated immediately prior to the start of …

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Charter Schools and Labor Market Outcomes

Dobbie, Will - 2016

We estimate the impact of charter schools on early-life labor market outcomes using administrative data from Texas. We find that, at the mean, charter schools have no impact on test scores and a negative impact on earnings. No Excuses charter schools increase test scores and four-year college...

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Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem

Dobbie, Will - 2009

Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), which combines community investments with reform minded charter schools, is one of the … eliminate the achievement gap or whether the issues that poor children bring to school are too much for educators alone to … overcome. Both lottery and instrumental variable identification strategies lead us to the same story: Harlem Children's Zone is …

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Management and Student Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Fryer, Roland G. - 2017

This study examines the impact on student achievement of implementing management training for principals in traditional public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were provided 300 hours of training on lesson planning,...

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More than Just a Nudge : Supporting Kindergarten Parents with Differentiated and Personalized Text-Messages

Doss, Christopher - 2018

ages. We study effects of a text-based program for parents of kindergarten children, distinguishing a general program from …; and their parents reported engaging more in literacy activities. Effects were driven by children further from average …Recent studies show that texting-based interventions can produce educational benefits in children across a range of …

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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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Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement : A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights

Fryer, Roland G. - 2015

This article describes a randomized field experiment in which parents were provided financial incentives to engage in … behaviors designed to increase early childhood cognitive and executive function skills through a parent academy. Parents were … rewarded for attendance at early childhood sessions, completing homework assignments with their children, and for their child …

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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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