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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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Integrating minorities in the classroom : the role of students, parents, and teachers

Gendre, Alexandra de; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Salamanca, … - 2024

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

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Promoting parental involvement in schools : evidence from two randomized experiments

Barrera, Felipe; Gertler, Paul J.; Nakajima, Nozomi; … - 2020

experiment provided information to parents about how to support their children's learning. Overall, the interventions induced …Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … effects among indigenous parents who have historically been discriminated and socially excluded - and improved student …

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The effects of incentivizing early prenatal care on infant health

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2022

We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...

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Birth order and delinquency : evidence from Denmark and Florida

Breining, Sanni Nørgaard; Doyle, Joseph J.; Figlio, … - 2017

environments across the two areas, we find remarkably consistent results: in families with two or more children, second-born boys … the evidence rules out differences in health at birth and the quality of schools chosen for children. We do find that …

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Birth order in the very long-run : estimating firstborn premiums between 1850 and 1940

Cools, Angela; Grooms, Jared; Karbownik, Krzysztof; … - 2024

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we study how the family's role in human capital production...

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The effect of education policy on crime : an intergenerational perspective

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

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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 education in Azerbaijan : some new estimates

Garcia Moreno, Vicente; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2020

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent; this is the first estimate of returns to schooling in Azerbaijan since 1995. The returns...

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Returns to education in the Russian Federation : some new estimates

Melianova, Ekaterina; Parandekar, Suhas; Patrinos, … - 2020

This paper presents new estimates of the returns to education in the Russian Federation using data from 1994 to 2018. Although the returns to schooling increased for a time, they are now much lower than the global average. Private returns to education are three times greater for higher education...

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