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Empirical studies in the economics of education, the measurement of skill gaps across demographic groups, and the impacts of interventions on skill formation rely on psychometrically validated test scores that record the proportion of items correctly answered. Test scores are sometimes taken as...
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This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...
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international PISA test (2009). We extend the analyses in two ways and find that students must differ considerably in the time …
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This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school … combined with psychological examination records, we study the causal impact of gifted students on their classmates in … unprecedented detail. We find a positive and significant effect of the exposure to gifted students on school achievement in both …
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Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …
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early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …
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emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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which the central government mandated urban public schools to exempt migrant children from tuition and temporary schooling … the types of primary sampling units. Specifically, we only use non-migrant rural hukou children living in counties in the … children who are currently living in China's top 120 migrant-receiving counties or city districts, and Shanghai. We also …
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assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …
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