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There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, is likely to be important. We estimate the impact of an elder sister’s teenage fertility on the teenage childbearing of their...
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tamper-proof date and time function, along with instructions to have one of the children photograph the teacher and other … schools and children were 40% more likely to be admitted into regular schools. …
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the quality of the neighborhood in terms of human capital, the higher the parent’s involvement in children’s education …We develop a model that gives some microfoundation to the impact of residential neighborhood on children’s educational … attainment and then test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that, for high-educated parents, the better …
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In Israel, as in many other countries, a high school matriculation certificate is required by universities and some jobs. In spite of the certificate’s value, Israeli society is marked by vast differences in matriculation rates by region and socioeconomic status. We attempted to increase the...
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-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common …
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Performance-related pay for teachers is being introduced in many countries, but there is little evaluation to date on the effects of such programmes. This Paper evaluates a particular incentive experiment. The incentive program is a rank-order tournament among teachers of English, Hebrew, and...
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indirect effect of returns to human capital on parents' preferences for sons and the resulting demand for children and … education. We assume that parents maximize the full income of their children and that males have an additional income … that parents who have daughters first have more children. Daughters are born to larger families and hence receive less …
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identification strategy relies on ratios between the number of young children and the capacity of preelementary schools observed at … unobserved determinants of early enrollment decision and children achievement. We measure this effect on schooling achievement in …
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Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children’s age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …
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We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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