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We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the detrimental, long-term developmental consequences of having an ill or disabled sibling. Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we employ a Regression...
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women, for low income families and when spacing between births is limited, suggesting that both time and financial …
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In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey and register data for Denmark, our main aim is to identify the parental background...
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In this paper we investigate the effect of Head Start on long term education and labor market outcomes using data from the NLSY79. The contributions to the existing literature on the effectiveness of Head Start are threefold: (1) we are the first to examine distributional effects of Head Start...
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nonpoor families suggests that it may operate on adolescent SWB through increased family resources, improved family …
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British secondary schools moved from a system of extensive and early selection and tracking in secondary schools to one … with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam at age eleven, which … do not solve this problem. -- tracking ; selective secondary schooling ; comprehensive schools …
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. In a setting where families choose schools, we identify the causal effect of longer schedules with instrumental variables …, using the local availability of full-day schools as an instrument. We find that lower-income families are more likely to … choose full-day schools, and after controlling for selection, longer school schedules lead to an increase of 0.14 standard …
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Due to increased financial pressures following the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have switched from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week schedule. While these shorter school weeks potentially help reduce costs, this study considers the implications these...
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reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores … of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05 standard deviations over three years relative to other schools. Reading …
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general education has led to an increase in hourly wages of men, but not of women, who completed basic vocational schools. …
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