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School quality and the development of cognitive skills between age four and six

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015

This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools … is measured by the school's average achievement test score at age 12. Our results indicate that children in high …

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Benefits of education at the intensive margin : childhood academic performance and adult outcomes among American immigrants

Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - 2014

Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the … evidence that the academic achievement of immigrant children in early adolescence is an accurate predictor of later life … outcomes. We also examine a novel hypothesis that relative academic performance of immigrant children in high school compared …

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Family shocks and academic achievement

Hull, Marie - 2015

affluent families; time use evidence indicates that this is likely because affluent parents are more involved in their children … important as teacher assignment for student learning. Furthermore, they have a relatively larger impact on students from …

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The long-term cognitive and schooling effects of childhood vaccinations in China

Oskorouchi, Hamid R.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Bloom, David E. - 2020

By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study), we assess the long-term effects of childhood vaccination on cognitive and educational outcomes in that country. To do so, we apply...

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The human capital cost of radiation : long-run evidence from exposure outside the womb

Elsner, Benjamin; Wozny, Florian - 2018

This paper studies the long-term effect of radiation on cognitive skills. We use regional variation in nuclear fallout caused by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, which led to a permanent increase in radiation levels in most of Europe. To identify a causal effect, we exploit the fact that the...

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Parental leave policies and socio-economic gaps in child development : evidence from a substantial benefit reform using administrative data

Huebener, Mathias; Kühnle, Daniel; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2018

the second year following childbirth. Higher-income households benefited relatively more from the reform than low-income …

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Family structure and child outcomes in the United States and Sweden

Björklund, Anders (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

complex than the biological relationship of parents to children in both Sweden and the United States"--Forschungsinstitut zur …"It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than … children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family …

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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills

Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021

Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....

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Human capital investments and family size in Italy: IV estimates using twin births as an instrument

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2021

investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … children quantity-quality trade-off proposed by Becker that has been investigated only for a few countries because of data … limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy - even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …

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The effects of deferred action for childhood arrivals on the educational outcomes of undocumented students

Hsin, Amy; Ortega, Francesc - 2017

uses administrative data on students attending a large public university to estimate the effect of DACA on undocumented … students' educational outcomes. The data are unique because they accurately identify students' legal status, account for … individual heterogeneity, and allow separate analysis of students attending community colleges versus baccalaureate-granting, 4 …

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