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Labour outcomes and family background : evidence from the EU during the recession

Avram, Silvia; Cantó-Sánchez, Olga - 2017

Using EU-SILC data for 2005 and 2011, we compare the role of family background on labour outcomes in three EU countries that experienced large swings in unemployment during this period. We use a multidimensional family background indicator that avoids undesirable cohort effects. Our results...

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Who assimilates? : statistical artefacts and intergenerational mobility in immigrant families

Luthra, Renee; Soehl, Thomas - 2014

the educational attainment of their children. Compared to natives, the educational transmission process between parent and …

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Income effects on children's life satisfaction : longitudinal evidence for England

Knies, Gundi - 2017

Using longitudinal data for children aged 10-15 years living in England in 2009-2014 we test the hypothesis that income … matters for children’s life satisfaction. The results suggest that children are more satisfied with life the more income their … family has. Income effects are larger the less income the family has and statistically significant for children from the age …

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The effect of school resources on test scores in England

Nicoletti, Cheti; Rabe, Birgitta - 2012

We analyze the effect of school expenditure on children’s test scores at age 16 by means of an education production …

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The impact of local labour market conditions on school leaving decisions

Tumino, Alberto; Taylor, Mark P. - 2015

unemployment discourage it. Labour markets do not significantly affect school leaving decisions of students from better off … education and social norms, outweigh economic considerations among students from higher socio economic backgrounds, who tend to …

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Relative wages and pupil performance, evidence from TIMSS

Fullard, Joshua - 2021

While it is widely established that higher wages attract more productive individuals into teaching, it is unclear if salaries can be used to motivate existing teachers to work harder, or more productively, in any way that affects pupil outcomes. Using teachers' predicted relative wages,...

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School inputs and skills : complementarity and self-productivity

Nicoletti, Cheti; Rabe, Birgitta - 2013 - This version: November 20, 2013

ability is 0.22 and the return to school expenditure is three times higher for students at the top of the past attainment …

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Youth employment and academic performance : production functions and policy effects

Holford, Angus - 2015

This paper proposes an approach to identifying the education production function with endogenous inputs, and applies it in the context of part-time employment decisions by UK teenagers in compulsory education. We identify simultaneously the effect of part-time employment and latent endogenous...

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Teacher grade predictions for ethnic minority groups : evidence from England

Burn, Hester; Fumagalli, Laura; Rabe, Birgitta - 2023

We explore whether teachers have different predictions for the examination performance of ethnic minority students … relative to White British students. We exploit an exogenous change in assessment methods to compare grades based on teacher … predictions to grades received through actual blindly marked examinations. Relative to White British students, teachers appear to …

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Infant health and longevity : evidence from a historical trial in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2015

This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...

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