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Intergenerational return to human capital : better educated parents invest more time and money in their children, who are more successful in the labor market
Devereux, Paul J. - 2014
essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414158
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Intergenerational return to human capital : better educated parents invest more time and money in their children, who are more successful in the labor market
Devereux, Paul J. - 2019
essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131034
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Do rising returns to education justify "helicopter" parenting? : increased stakes in educational achievement explain why today's anxious parents engage in intensive parenting style...
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2021
Parents now engage in much more intensive parenting styles compared to a few decades ago. Today's parents supervise … their children more closely, spend more time interacting with them, help much more with homework, and place more emphasis on … educational achievement. More intensive parenting has also led to more unequal parenting: highly educated parents with high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254380
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Language proficiency and immigrants' economic integration : It is vital to measure language proficiency well, as it crucially determines immigrants’ earnings
Daley, Angela; Hu, Min; Warman, Casey - 2019
Over recent decades, Western countries have admitted many immigrants from non-traditional regions (e.g. Philippines, India, China), which has coincided with poor economic integration. Language proficiency is an important determinant of economic integration; in addition to being a component of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139489
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Impact of bilingual education on student achievement : language development programs should focus on quality rather than the language in which instruction is provided
Chin, Aimee - 2015
More than 4.4 million students enrolled in US public schools participate in English language learner programs because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430704
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Central exit exams improve student outcomes : external school leaving exams raise student achievement and improve how grades are understood in the labor market
Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
’s institutional framework, which can hold students, teachers, schools, and administrators accountable for student outcomes. While … critics point to issues such as teaching test-only skills, which may leave students ill-prepared for the real world, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781700
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Do social interactions in the classroom improve academic attainment? : Student sorting into classes complicates policies that utilize peer effects to optimize educational outcomes
Telhaj, Shqiponja - 2018
education, one essential aspect is that “good” peers can potentially improve students’ academic achievement, career choices, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863742
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How do adult returns to schooling affect children's enrollment? : raising future expected monetary gains to schooling and poor families' current incomes promotes school enrollment...
Swinnerton, Kenneth A. - 2016
predicted to induce increased school enrollment for children whose families wish to optimally invest in their children’s future … under-enroll their children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554972
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Is there an optimal school starting age? : it depends : older children perform better on standardized tests, but evidence of older school starting ages on long-term outcomes is mix...
Dhuey, Elizabeth; Koebel, Kourtney - 2022
There is a widely held belief that older students, by virtue of being more mature and readier to learn at school entry …-understood. Children's primary school entry ages vary worldwide, 2020 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254503
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What is the nature and extent of student-university mismatch? : students do worse if their abilities fail to match the requirements of the institutions where they matriculate
Wyness, Gill; Murphy, Richard - 2020
research focused on overmatch-where students are lower attaining than their college peers. However, more recently, attention … has turned to undermatch, where students attend institutions with lower attaining peers. Both have been shown to matter … for student outcomes; while in theory overmatch could be desirable, there is evidence that overmatched students are less …
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